Offending dried herbs

Dried Italian Herb Mix (Photo by Cynthia Nelson)

Hi Everyone,
Last week Friday my palette was brutally assaulted by the taste of dried herbs in the food I was eating. It’s not the first time that it has happened and on each occasion I vowed to write something, educating about the use of dried herbs in cooking but never got around to it. However, the yam pie that won my eyes but wounded my taste buds left me hungry and angry. And we all know the saying: a hungry man is an angry man.

The flavour of dried herbs has little in common with fresh herbs. And here’s why.

Drying removes most of the water in an herb. Fresh herbs are made up mostly of water and when they are dried, more than