What do I do with Rosemary?

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Hi rachel,

This thread has some more suggestions::

What do I do with Rosemary?

I'll add your thread to that one later to keep the ideas together.

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mouseymousey99

Shoulder of lamb, slow roast it on a BIG bed of rosemary (takes about 3 - 4 hours) and garlic. At the end you should be able to eat it with a spoon...

Cuttings for neighbours and friends?
Use in BBQ (flavours your cooking).
As said, Freecycle?
All else fails compost, woody parts take a while to go down.

Rikki

Barneysmom wrote: »

I wish you lived by me, I would love it.
Try putting it on Freecycle, but meantime it is really easy to take cuttings from it so you don't have to buy new.
Just snip a few pieces about 4 - 5 inches long and put the in a little vase/jar or something with water in. Pull the bottom few leaves off. In a few weeks you'll see roots coming through.
I did put a quarter of a teaspoon of sugar in the water when I did mine, I don't know why, but it worked

You could always trim it right back?

I'm going to give this a go with mine,

Waverider_uk

mouseymousey99 wrote: »

Shoulder of lamb, slow roast it on a BIG bed of rosemary (takes about 3 - 4 hours) and garlic. At the end you should be able to eat it with a spoon..

Doing this today, Lamb + Rosemary + Garlic = Awesome

Aril

If you're a red wine drinker it's good to pour the red wine in a bowl and add rosemary sprigs to it and leave to infuse.
Can you use some in bread? You can also make rosemary flavoured sugar [bit like vanilla sugar] and use it in cakes.
Aril

meanmarie

I would just cut it back and freeze most of the trimmings, using a few to root as Barneysmom suggested, it roots easily and a pot of thriving rosemary makes a nice gift at Christmas or other time

Marie

Butterfly_Brain

It is a very good hair tonic just soak in boiling water for a few minutes strain and use in the last rinse. Leaves your hair really shiny

AussieLass

What ratio of rosemary & water would you use for the hair tonic? Sounds lovely to do. Must read up how to dry it out as well.

LameWolf

You can also tie a few of the trimmings together and hold it under the hot tap when you run a bath. Makes your bath quite invigorating, and cheaper than buying bath oils!

Or if you make your own soap, embed some small sprigs or individual needles in it - I have some lovely soap like this that I got at a local craft fair.

mardatha

I have a nice rosemary plant at the door. I like the taste . What can you cook with it ?