<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/c4ba1301-6b74-4e24-9ad8-288b19ae0f4c/BC69FF41-0F3F-4B8C-A5D7-162C67E7909F/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://simplyfoodndrink.com/powerful-tips-to-keeping-fresh-herbs/" href="http://simplyfoodndrink.com/powerful-tips-to-keeping-fresh-herbs/" style="font-size: 11px;">simplyfoodndrink.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://simplyfoodndrink.com/powerful-tips-to-keeping-fresh-herbs/"><H2 class="PostHeaderIcon-wrapper"> <SPAN class="PostHeader"><A title="Permanent Link to Powerful Tips to Keeping Fresh Herbs" rel="bookmark" href="http://simplyfoodndrink.com/powerful-tips-to-keeping-fresh-herbs/"> Powerful Tips to Keeping Fresh Herbs</A></SPAN> </H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://simplyfoodndrink.com/powerful-tips-to-keeping-fresh-herbs/"><P><STRONG>Harvesting Fresh Herbs: Recap</STRONG></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://simplyfoodndrink.com/powerful-tips-to-keeping-fresh-herbs/"><P>Let’s take a step back and quickly cover what we learned about harvesting fresh herbs from your home herb garden:</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://simplyfoodndrink.com/powerful-tips-to-keeping-fresh-herbs/"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Harvest herbs before the hottest part of the day. Preferably morning after dew has dried</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://simplyfoodndrink.com/powerful-tips-to-keeping-fresh-herbs/"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Harvest no more than 30% of the leaves from a herb plant at a time unless you are harvesting an entire annual herb garden plant like cilantro</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://simplyfoodndrink.com/powerful-tips-to-keeping-fresh-herbs/"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Rinse leaves in a bowl of cool saltwater to remove insects and dirt</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://simplyfoodndrink.com/powerful-tips-to-keeping-fresh-herbs/"><P><STRONG>The Best, Little Known Tips to Preserve Fresh Herbs - Tip 1: Herbal Ice Cubes: Little Flavor Bombs</STRONG></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://simplyfoodndrink.com/powerful-tips-to-keeping-fresh-herbs/"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Place a measured amount (see below) rinsed herb leaves in an ice cube tray</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://simplyfoodndrink.com/powerful-tips-to-keeping-fresh-herbs/"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Lightly mince the leaves of the herbs</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://simplyfoodndrink.com/powerful-tips-to-keeping-fresh-herbs/"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Fill ice cube trays with water and freeze</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://simplyfoodndrink.com/powerful-tips-to-keeping-fresh-herbs/"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Make sure to label the trays so you can identify your herbs later</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://simplyfoodndrink.com/powerful-tips-to-keeping-fresh-herbs/"><SPAN>*Uses and tips for freezing herbs in ice cubes</SPAN></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/BC69FF41-0F3F-4B8C-A5D7-162C67E7909F/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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