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Kitchen herbs
Growing and using Thai kitchen herbs, with cautions for amounts beyond normal cooking.
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Grow Thai kitchen herbs in pots: lemongrass, galangal, basil, makrut, pandan
Root market lemongrass, grow galangal, turmeric and fingerroot from rhizomes, raise basil, keep makrut and pandan in pots, and harvest so they keep producing.
7 min read10 Thai kitchen herbs: which part to use, look-alikes, and buying fresh
Lemongrass, galangal, makrut leaf, holy basil, Thai basil, fingerroot, turmeric, bird's eye chili, pandan and culantro: what to use, how they taste, how to pick them.
6 min readHerbs as food vs herbs as medicine: turmeric, andrographis, fingerroot
Turmeric in a curry is not turmeric in a capsule. Dose, concentration, how long you take it and other medicines change the risk. When to ask a doctor or pharmacist.
5 min readKeeping herbs: fridge, freezer, drying, and what never to do
Coriander goes in the fridge, Thai basil hates the cold, lemongrass, galangal and makrut lime leaves freeze well, and homemade garlic in oil needs care.
6 min read