Oregano or Basil?
 

I've concluded that I definitely like oregano better than basil, regardless of
dish. The basil seems to have a soapish flavor to me. The board has been
quiet lately. Anyone care to opine?

In article ,
"Ken Anderson" wrote:

I've concluded that I definitely like oregano better than basil, regardless of
dish. The basil seems to have a soapish flavor to me. The board has been
quiet lately. Anyone care to opine?



Well, to each their own taste... ;-)
Oregano I can only use in very, very small amounts as it is strong and
too much upsets my stomach.

I adore basil, but that's just me.

Might be the variety?
There are a few different types of basil.....

--
K.

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In article ,
Ken Anderson wrote:
I've concluded that I definitely like oregano better than basil, regardless of
dish. The basil seems to have a soapish flavor to me. The board has been
quiet lately. Anyone care to opine?

Maybe you should try a different kind of basil. There are many if you
grow from seed. Worth it!

(Of course, everyone's nose and tongue are a little different. YMMV.)

-frank
--

"Frank Miles" wrote in message
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In article ,
Ken Anderson wrote:
I've concluded that I definitely like oregano better than basil, regardless
of
dish. The basil seems to have a soapish flavor to me. The board has been
quiet lately. Anyone care to opine?

Maybe you should try a different kind of basil. There are many if you
grow from seed. Worth it!

(Of course, everyone's nose and tongue are a little different. YMMV.)

-frank
--

I must confess blasphemy. : \
These herbs are off-the-shelf. Dried and in bottles, no less. McCormick's?
The home-grown I assume are much better, if you know how to do it. I recall
growing both oregano and basil one year, but thought the results left
something to be desired. There was too much of a plant-like chlorophyll
taste, as I recall.

In article ,
"Ken Anderson" wrote:

"Frank Miles" wrote in message
...
In article ,
Ken Anderson wrote:
I've concluded that I definitely like oregano better than basil, regardless
of
dish. The basil seems to have a soapish flavor to me. The board has been
quiet lately. Anyone care to opine?

Maybe you should try a different kind of basil. There are many if you
grow from seed. Worth it!

(Of course, everyone's nose and tongue are a little different. YMMV.)

-frank
--

I must confess blasphemy. : \
These herbs are off-the-shelf. Dried and in bottles, no less. McCormick's?
The home-grown I assume are much better, if you know how to do it. I recall
growing both oregano and basil one year, but thought the results left
something to be desired. There was too much of a plant-like chlorophyll
taste, as I recall.



Heh.
There is NO comparison between the flavors of fresh vs. dried and
bottled herbs... ;-)

Kat

--
K.

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Ken Anderson wrote:
I've concluded that I definitely like oregano better than basil,
regardless of
dish. The basil seems to have a soapish flavor to me. The board has
been
quiet lately. Anyone care to opine?

I've never liked Basil, never had much of an opinion,but I have a nice
purple bush basil with a sweet almost licorice type smell that I adore.
I'm bored with oregano, I prefere sage and rosemary.
nina

http://dirtythoughts.ninaloca.net

"nina" wrote in message
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Ken Anderson wrote:
I've concluded that I definitely like oregano better than basil,
regardless of
dish. The basil seems to have a soapish flavor to me. The board has
been
quiet lately. Anyone care to opine?

I've never liked Basil, never had much of an opinion,but I have a nice
purple bush basil with a sweet almost licorice type smell that I adore.
I'm bored with oregano, I prefere sage and rosemary.
nina


Several minutes ago I placed my seed order. At the last moment I deleted the
fancy basil that I had on my list. It's so easy to go overboard when ordering
seeds. : \
I'd like to post the link to the site I ordered from. I ordered last year
also, and I think they have a great selection. The Redorta San Marzano
tomatoes are outstanding. Unusual URL, I'll agree. : )
http://www.felcopruners.net/
NAYY, blah blah blah

In article .com,
"nina" wrote:

Ken Anderson wrote:
I've concluded that I definitely like oregano better than basil,
regardless of
dish. The basil seems to have a soapish flavor to me. The board has
been
quiet lately. Anyone care to opine?

I've never liked Basil, never had much of an opinion,but I have a nice
purple bush basil with a sweet almost licorice type smell that I adore.
I'm bored with oregano, I prefere sage and rosemary.
nina

http://dirtythoughts.ninaloca.net


Every tried Thyme?

I have 3 different varieties growing and there are quite a few more
available! I just picked up a beautiful variagated variety that has a
loverly smell..... and taste!

Goes well as a creeping ground cover around walkways.
As you step on it or brush by it, it realeases a lot of scent into the
air.

--
K.

Sprout the Mung Bean to reply...

There is no need to change the world. All we have to do is toilet train the world and we'll never have to change it again. -- Swami Beyondanada

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Katra wrote:
In article .com,
"nina" wrote:

Ken Anderson wrote:
I've concluded that I definitely like oregano better than basil,
regardless of
dish. The basil seems to have a soapish flavor to me. The board
has
been
quiet lately. Anyone care to opine?

I've never liked Basil, never had much of an opinion,but I have a
nice
purple bush basil with a sweet almost licorice type smell that I
adore.
I'm bored with oregano, I prefere sage and rosemary.
nina

http://dirtythoughts.ninaloca.net


Every tried Thyme?

I have 3 different varieties growing and there are quite a few more
available! I just picked up a beautiful variagated variety that has a

loverly smell..... and taste!

Goes well as a creeping ground cover around walkways.
As you step on it or brush by it, it realeases a lot of scent into
the
air.


Thats what I dont have! Well, that and sage too,oh and tarragon. They
dont seem to be as common down here (Puerto Rico) as in the States.I
had regular thyme and lemon thyme in Colorado. I adored the lemon
thyme.I need to get new plants as I am starting to run low on the
little bit that I harvested and dried before moving.
I've got my Richters catalogs right here. I cant wait to start
ordering!!
nina
http://dirtythoughts.ninaloca.net

In article .com,
"nina" wrote:

Katra wrote:
In article .com,
"nina" wrote:

Ken Anderson wrote:
I've concluded that I definitely like oregano better than basil,
regardless of
dish. The basil seems to have a soapish flavor to me. The board
has
been
quiet lately. Anyone care to opine?

I've never liked Basil, never had much of an opinion,but I have a
nice
purple bush basil with a sweet almost licorice type smell that I
adore.
I'm bored with oregano, I prefere sage and rosemary.
nina

http://dirtythoughts.ninaloca.net


Every tried Thyme?

I have 3 different varieties growing and there are quite a few more
available! I just picked up a beautiful variagated variety that has a

loverly smell..... and taste!

Goes well as a creeping ground cover around walkways.
As you step on it or brush by it, it realeases a lot of scent into
the
air.


Thats what I dont have! Well, that and sage too,oh and tarragon. They
dont seem to be as common down here (Puerto Rico) as in the States.I
had regular thyme and lemon thyme in Colorado. I adored the lemon
thyme.I need to get new plants as I am starting to run low on the
little bit that I harvested and dried before moving.
I've got my Richters catalogs right here. I cant wait to start
ordering!!
nina
http://dirtythoughts.ninaloca.net


If you have any trouble getting Thyme, let me know!
My creeping thyme is doing well and I may be able to air layer you some.
:-)
--
K.

"Ken Anderson" wrote in message
...
I've concluded that I definitely like oregano better than basil,
regardless of
dish. The basil seems to have a soapish flavor to me.

My oregano not only requires no care, it is a bit on the invasive side. I
have to pull it out and cut it back every year, and it always comes back
with a vengence, with little oregano plants appearing in other parts of the
garden that have to be weeded out.

Basil, in the cool summers of the Pacific Northwest, takes patience. I
usually buy starts, not seeds. Then I make mini greenhouses: I save a liter
clear pop bottle, and cut off the top part. Each one of these is then
inverted over the basil. The interior gets warm and traps dampness inside,
and keeps the slugs out (they *love* basil!). By the time the basil plant
outgrows its little house, it is warm enough for it to grow without needing
it any more.

By the end of the summer, the few basil plants I put in before are now like
bushes. You have to pinch back basil on a regular basis to keep it from
going to seed, and the plant can grow to a couple feet in height. It also
won't turn as bitter if you pinch it back.

When cool fall weather arrives, I hack down both the basil and the oregano.
The oregano winters over with no problem. I freeze basil leaves in a big
ziplock bag, and through the following months I can pull out frozen basil
leaves and toss it into sauces and stews. The stalks of both plants I dry
in the rafters of the garage. Then I put the dried stalks in the barbecue
when grilling. The smoke of the basil or oregano imparts a smoky herbed
flavor to the foods that are grilled.


--
Warm Regards,

Claire Petersky
Home of the meditative cyclist:
http://home.earthlink.net/~cpetersky/Welcome.htm
Personal page: http://www.geocities.com/cpetersky/
See the books I've set free at:
http://bookcrossing.com/referral/Cpetersky

Just passing on a thought on how to improve the menus on
your website using some good old down home CSS.
http://dirtythoughts.ninaloca.net

Inside your css page, try something along the lines of the
following for the menu tags.

style type="text/css"!--
..menu, a.menu, a.menu:link, a.menu:visited, a.menu:active {
display: block;
color: #0000ff;
background-color: ffff00;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;
font-size: 10pt;
padding: 2px;
text-decoration: none;
border-style: outset;
border-size: 1px;
width: 100%;
text-align: center;
}
a.menu:hover {
display: block;
color: #993300;
/*background-color: transparent;*/
text-decoration: none;
background-color: #ddddff;
padding: 2px;
border-color: #00ffff;
border-size: 1px;
width: 100%;
text-align: center;
}
--/style

When working with web-pages, ALL tags are either:
block or inline.
The display: block; tells the browser a.menu is to be represented
as a block element rather than an inline element. By default a
tags are inline, meaning they don't expand to the size of their
containing tag. Tables, paragraphs and div are block style.
Sometimes you'll see div and span tags. The only difference
between these tags, is their "display" property. span are all
inline, div are all block. This is probably one of the most
important things to learn when working with style sheets (css).

You can "override" the default behavior of any inline element
to make them display as block.

The css code above works for a class="menu" href="" links.
I put in the mechanism to turn off the underline and change the
way the border looks. Something that helps me out when I
run into troubles...
http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_examples.asp

I have to do these tutorials every so often to keep my skills
up and refresh my css knowledge, otherwise I'll forget things.
I hope this helps. You can copy the code to an .htm document
on your hard disk and mess with the border-size, width, and
so on. It's 100% compatible with IE 4.0 and netscape 6.0 or
later. Netscape 4 doesn't seem to recognize the border-style
tags.

Hope this is helpful.

--
Jim Carlock
Please post replies to newsgroup.

Jim Carlock wrote:
Just passing on a thought on how to improve the menus on
your website using some good old down home CSS.
http://dirtythoughts.ninaloca.net

Inside your css page, try something along the lines of the
following for the menu tags.

..code snipped..
I have to do these tutorials every so often to keep my skills
up and refresh my css knowledge, otherwise I'll forget things.
I hope this helps. You can copy the code to an .htm document
on your hard disk and mess with the border-size, width, and
so on. It's 100% compatible with IE 4.0 and netscape 6.0 or
later. Netscape 4 doesn't seem to recognize the border-style
tags.

Hope this is helpful.

thx
I added the display:block thingy. Was there a problem with it before or
is this just an optional improvment? It checks out ok for me in Firefox
and IE6.

I do these sites to keep busy and to give myself a chance to work on
CSS since I've been out of school 3 years and will forget everything if
I dont keep at it. You will also notice that I took the easy way out
and used tables for my layout. I am not a paying customer, so my
personal sites get crappy code.

Katra wrote:
In article .com,
"nina" wrote:

Katra wrote:
In article
.com,
"nina" wrote:

Ken Anderson wrote:
I've concluded that I definitely like oregano better than
basil,
regardless of
dish. The basil seems to have a soapish flavor to me. The
board
has
been
quiet lately. Anyone care to opine?

I've never liked Basil, never had much of an opinion,but I have
a
nice
purple bush basil with a sweet almost licorice type smell that
I
adore.
I'm bored with oregano, I prefere sage and rosemary.
nina

http://dirtythoughts.ninaloca.net


Every tried Thyme?

I have 3 different varieties growing and there are quite a few
more
available! I just picked up a beautiful variagated variety that
has a

loverly smell..... and taste!

Goes well as a creeping ground cover around walkways.
As you step on it or brush by it, it realeases a lot of scent
into
the
air.


Thats what I dont have! Well, that and sage too,oh and tarragon.
They
dont seem to be as common down here (Puerto Rico) as in the
States.I
had regular thyme and lemon thyme in Colorado. I adored the lemon
thyme.I need to get new plants as I am starting to run low on the
little bit that I harvested and dried before moving.
I've got my Richters catalogs right here. I cant wait to start
ordering!!
nina
http://dirtythoughts.ninaloca.net


If you have any trouble getting Thyme, let me know!
My creeping thyme is doing well and I may be able to air layer you
some.
:-)
--
Thanks. I hope I dont have to take you up on that offer. :)

In article ,
"Claire Petersky" wrote:

"Ken Anderson" wrote in message
...
I've concluded that I definitely like oregano better than basil,
regardless of
dish. The basil seems to have a soapish flavor to me.

My oregano not only requires no care, it is a bit on the invasive side. I
have to pull it out and cut it back every year, and it always comes back
with a vengence, with little oregano plants appearing in other parts of the
garden that have to be weeded out.

Basil, in the cool summers of the Pacific Northwest, takes patience. I
usually buy starts, not seeds. Then I make mini greenhouses: I save a liter
clear pop bottle, and cut off the top part. Each one of these is then
inverted over the basil. The interior gets warm and traps dampness inside,
and keeps the slugs out (they *love* basil!). By the time the basil plant
outgrows its little house, it is warm enough for it to grow without needing
it any more.

By the end of the summer, the few basil plants I put in before are now like
bushes. You have to pinch back basil on a regular basis to keep it from
going to seed, and the plant can grow to a couple feet in height. It also
won't turn as bitter if you pinch it back.

When cool fall weather arrives, I hack down both the basil and the oregano.
The oregano winters over with no problem. I freeze basil leaves in a big
ziplock bag, and through the following months I can pull out frozen basil
leaves and toss it into sauces and stews. The stalks of both plants I dry
in the rafters of the garage. Then I put the dried stalks in the barbecue
when grilling. The smoke of the basil or oregano imparts a smoky herbed
flavor to the foods that are grilled.

ooh I like that idea for grilling! :-)
I've never tried that, thanks!!!

--
K.

Sprout the Mung Bean to reply...

There is no need to change the world. All we have to do is toilet train the world and we'll never have to change it again. -- Swami Beyondanada

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