Herb Collection
Parsley Dash to Dress Your Dish
A clean herb-spice
Parsley gets its name from the Greek petrose, meaning rock, to describe its origins in Sardinia and Greece. Find both curly and flat-leaf varieties. Western diets garnish dishes and soups with it, and its seeds make a bitter spice. The French concocted a persillade sauce with it to put on anything.
Make it into a roux or chop it into salsa verde. The Greeks revered it, believing parsley to have sprung from the blood of Archemorus. But the Romans used it as a hangover cure. Passover celebrations include it, and Charlemagne grew parsley on his estate.
Nomenclature: Petroselinum crispum Tastes: Clean, peppery, earthy Uses: Garnish, soups, casseroles, seed spice, nutritious, antibacterial, folk medicine Origin: Mediterranean
Recipe: Persillade
Ingredients: Parsley, green onion, pickle, capers, garlic, sugar, s&p. See link.