Herbs and Spices

Herbs and spices are particularly valuable

when cooking at Linderhof

But I like things to be pretty, too!

So no store jars or cans of spices on my shelves.

Years ago, Sally gave me the "Mint" jar because she knew I loved blue and white.

Where she got it, I'm not sure

But I did treasure it

And I did put dried mint in it!

And the pretty little herb jar sat alone on the spice shelf

admit clay pots of herbs and glass jars of spices.

Until . . . 

A trip (a couple of years ago) to Tuesday Morning

and I found a treasure trove of Spode herb/spice jars

(I bought one of all they had!)

I did order the "Mixed Spice" jar because I like to keep the English Mixed Spice

on hand for I cook a lot from English cookery books and they often call for it.

And then . . . Monday, up popped

The Mixed Herb jar on Ebay for a very good price (less than what I paid at Tuesday Morning).

I have always kept a jar of mixed herbs.

It's the little bit that I pick from the garden that doesn't get used.

I hate to throw it out so I put it in a saucer until it is dry and then add it to my

"mixed herb jar"

(which until this week was a half-pint canning jar)

I love using mixed herbs for you get a new recipe every time!

And now my mixture of herbs has it's own classy jar!

And there's some basil to be dried to add to it!

I keep my dried herbs and my spices in the larder

On a shelf -- the "herb and spice shelf"

It makes me happy -- the little glass jars full of mostly spices

And the blue and white Spode jars

And way in the back are the clay jars that I've had "forever".

If you don't keep a "mixed herb" jar (whether a pretty Spode one or a plain old canning jar one),

you should -- there's nothing like roasting a chicken breast and sprinkling on some of the mixture from the mixed herb jar.     Next time you do it, it won't taste the same -- that's for sure!