Rosemary

[jhockin]

one of my regular things to do with fresh cut rosemary ( in quantity) is to put it in empty gallon pails ( like the ones ice cream comes in) with epsom salts - very nice for epsom salts baths , once the salt has drawn out the oils. (Which reminds me - gotta separate the dried rosemary, and take it out of the buckets, so the salt isn't full of twigs.)

[artificer]

What? You don't like herbal coffee?

Actually, I don't generally like coffee. Apart from one or two restaurants where I KNOW they can consistently brew a marvelous espresso, which I'd have over dessert after a very nice meal, I never drink it.

I'm VERY caffeine sensitive, and I can easily be up for the night after a cup of coffee, even if I drink it mid-morning.

Ask me about teas, and I could go on for YEARS.

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[Bugbear]

Get a small electric coffee grinder, Ted. They work beautifully on dried rosemary.

That's kind of what I have, but it's not exclusively for coffee.
I would like a hand cranked mill, however, I could also grind things on a stone like the ancient ones...

What? You don't like herbal coffee?

I have already confessed in this thread to putting spices including red chili pepper and black pepper in my coffee from time to time.

one of my regular things to do with fresh cut rosemary ( in quantity) is to put it in empty gallon pails ( like the ones ice cream comes in) with epsom salts - very nice for epsom salts baths , once the salt has drawn out the oils. (Which reminds me - gotta separate the dried rosemary, and take it out of the buckets, so the salt isn't full of twigs.)

For about seven or eight years, I only had a six gallon water heater. In the two cold months, out here, I would boil water in a giant stock pot on the stove, fill the tub with the six gallons of water from the water heater, then dump the boiling water in and fill it with cold water to make it a nice temperature.

My giant stock pot (3 gallons) also has a pot with a bunch of holes that fits inside like a basket.. Sometimes I would put a bunch of rosemary branches in that, and make rosemary water for the bath.

Thankfully I now have a twenty gallon water heater, and don't need to do that anymore.

[Bugbear]

And, for what it's worth... I harvested the four ears on the last stalk of blue corn out there.

The tradition continues, even though I am having to grow the corn in large containers...

[piperdbh]

There'll be a hot time in the old town tonight.