This stuff is great on EVERYTHING! Tuna, turkey, stuffing, hot dogs, hamburgers, green beans...
Posted by quidscribis (Member # 5124) on :
Yup, you're right.
And you've just reminded me of something I don't have and can't get here. Or, er, only once every two and a half years, it seems. Posted by Telperion the Silver (Member # 6074) on :
Awww... life without dill-weed is cold and spiceless... *snuggles*
Posted by quidscribis (Member # 5124) on :
Telpy, you are so cute and adorable! Posted by Speed 2: Cruise Control (Member # 6765) on :
Uh, huh huh huh. Beavis, you dill weed. Uh, huh huh huh.
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
I agree, dill is a great herb. I had a salad the other day that had fresh dill in it. I wasn't expecting it, but it added a really nice touch.
Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
I always add dill to our pot of mashed potatoes -- it is great! Try that sometime!
FG
Posted by aretee (Member # 1743) on :
I don't care for dill. The Greeks use it quite a bit and it took me about 6 months to figure out what it was that I didn't like whilst I lived there.
Posted by kwsni (Member # 1831) on :
I had a flower arrangement with dill in it at one point. I loved it, cause it would smell amazing when ever you walked by.
Ni!
Posted by sweetbaboo (Member # 8845) on :
YUM! Related but not the same...dill pickle potato chips.
Posted by breyerchic04 (Member # 6423) on :
Dill any sort of potatoes is amazing.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
*makes note to send several bottles of dill to quid to keep in her freezer when she sends a chocolate package*
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
You are a dill-weed!
Posted by Brinestone (Member # 5755) on :
My mom makes a vegetable dip with dill weed in it that I've heard is amazing. I don't like mayo or sour cream, though, and I like my veggies unadulterated, so I wouldn't know.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
quote:I don't like mayo or sour cream, though,
*faints*
*recovers*
I started making a dip like that when I was about 7. It was soon requested at every family get-together. Posted by Theaca (Member # 8325) on :
So dill weed is like an herb you can buy for seasoning? I never thought about where dill comes from. *wants to buy some*
Posted by maui babe (Member # 1894) on :
Quid, you might trying growing your own dill. It's very easy and the fresh stuff is even better than the dried.
My peasant children would stone me if I put anything in the mashed potatoes, but I'm sure I'd like it.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
They sell it both dried in jars and fresh, in sprigs. Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
I like rosemary and garlic in my mashed (smashed) potatoes. (Besides the sour cream and butter, of course.)
Posted by maui babe (Member # 1894) on :
When I lived where I could have a large garden, I'd always put up my green beans as "dilly beans". They were pickled with garlic and fresh dill. I've never liked canned green beans, but these were great.
Posted by maui babe (Member # 1894) on :
I put garlic and cheese in the potatoes once and there was much weeping and wailing. They're such purists. They want just milk, butter, salt and pepper.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
I've had those! They're like... kind of a cross between three-bean salad (but with only green beans) and pickles. Mmmmm.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Pffft. Tell them they can make their own potatoes, then. Posted by maui babe (Member # 1894) on :
Yeah, well, there's not much point in me even cooking if they won't eat it. Since there's just the three of us left at home now, I've really caved on what I serve. I made a pan of enchiladas a while ago and had to eat the whole thing myself...
My older children give me tons of grief about it, because they had to eat what I served or tough it out, but I've gotten soft I guess.
Posted by Uprooted (Member # 8353) on :
I love gillyweed. Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Maybe you should try what my mom did-- make us cook two nights a week each, clean dishes two other nights a week, and institute a "you-must-eat-at-least-three-bites-ov-everything-if-you-don't-like-it-excuse-yourself-politely-and-go-eat-a-PBJ-in-the-kitchen" rule. Posted by breyerchic04 (Member # 6423) on :
I call rosemary pine needles, the smell is ok, but I really don't like the texture, so please don't put it in things you cook for me. Our mashed potatoes always have garlic or cheddar in them, i might try dill next summer when we have fresh. Herbs are basically the only edible things we can grow, sometimes chili's but mostly oregano, mint, chives, dill, and parsely.
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
Dill weed is ok, and it is very nice in the chicken soup, but my current favorite that is making its way into everything is celery seeds.
Posted by El JT de Spang (Member # 7742) on :
What in the dickens is dillweed?
Anybody?
Posted by sweetbaboo (Member # 8845) on :
Maui Babe, would you share your recipe for dilly beans? I love 'em!
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Rosemary is my very very very favorite herb. It's not pine needles in texture at all if cooked right, especially if you use fresh (it grows wild around here.)
JT: Dill. Posted by El JT de Spang (Member # 7742) on :
Okay, I gathered from context that it was an herb.
I guess my question is, is this something that I've eaten and not known? Does it have a distinctive taste?
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Yes, it has a distinctive taste. Ever eaten borscht? Scandinavian fish dishes? Many of them have dill in them.
Posted by breyerchic04 (Member # 6423) on :
Like dill pickles sort of JT.
We've tried to grow rosemary in pots here (one that was actually shaped like a christmas tree comes to mind), I guess it's just a childhood thing I"m keeping. I think chives are my favorite, as a kid I wouldn't eat a baked potato without sour cream, and chives (and butter or margerine), my mom got to the point she took a little cup of chives from Wendy's in her purse, at least before I was seven or eight.
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
Dill tastes like freshness and greenness and springtime.
Posted by El JT de Spang (Member # 7742) on :
I thought springtime tasted like Febreeze?
Posted by maui babe (Member # 1894) on :
This is similar to what I made, but I didn't put in any mustard seed or chile peppers. The recipe I used was in a cookbook I no longer have ... and I'm not sure what happened to it. I lost it when I moved to Hawaii I guess.
Actually, the peppers would probably make them even better.
The hardest part is having to wait 2 weeks to eat them... MMMMMmmmmmmm
Posted by breyerchic04 (Member # 6423) on :
You know, I think I may have had those before. Home canned stuff is so amazing.
Tante, no springtime tastes like Sprite.
Posted by sweetbaboo (Member # 8845) on :
Thanks maui babe. Now I wish beans were in season! I'd forgotten all about dilly beans, the ones I've had were spicy and good! I think I'll try the peppers. YUM!
Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
When I was younger, I made a "dill crock" based on guidelines from Euell Gibbons (yeah - only us old fogies remember him).
Big old crock, put in layer of dill and brine (like you would for making pickles), then layers of things like green beans, small green cherry tomatoes, okra, anything else you wanted, and layer with dill, cover with a plate to keep all down in the crock, and let set for however long.
Dilled green beans (uncooked snap beans) were absolutely fabulous. So were the little tomatoes...
FG
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
Have you ever tried eating a pine tree? Many parts are edible. How about Grape Nuts, ever try eating those?
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Pine nuts are edible. According to some people. (My dad loves them. I despise them.)
Grape Nuts are delicious. Especially hot, with plenty of sugar.
Posted by quidscribis (Member # 5124) on :
quote:Quid, you might trying growing your own dill. It's very easy and the fresh stuff is even better than the dried.
Yep, I'm with you, maui babe. I've just recently been able to find dill seed at the grocery store. I have no idea if it's treated or untreated for it to not grow, but I'm willing to give it a try.
The big problem here is that we have so many slugs and snails that eat anything I've tried to grow. They love all my herbs, the spinach, everything. Ugh.
I've killed at least a hundred snails in the last two months! Gee, with the geckos in the picture, that really sounds like a slaughterhouse, don't it? Anyway, there are still more. The previous occupant, the owner, doesn't know anything about plants or pests and didn't seem to care. Ah well.
Oh, BUT I did find out - from my mother-in-law, no less - that there is something here called matta (Sinhalese transcription - no one knew the English word for it) that keeps the slugs/snails away from plants. Just spread it around where you don't want them to go. I thought it sounded like diatomaceous earth, but she didn't think it killed the slugs, just kept them away, so I'm really not sure. At any rate, I need to get me some.
quote:*makes note to send several bottles of dill to quid to keep in her freezer when she sends a chocolate package*
See, I was half-expecting this as your response. You're too cute for words. And you just gave me an answer that irritates me for not thinking of the obvious sooner.
Why, oh why, have I not put my spare herbs/spices in the freezer? I mean the bags of opened/unopened ones that I'm not currently using? Bugs gets into everything, and even when you think a spice bag is sealed, it evidently isn't. I've thrown out a couple of bags of chilli powder recently because of bugs. It drives me nuts!
I've recently taken to storing my cocoa in the fridge because bugs got into an opened bag.
I'm going to need a bigger fridge!
Sigh. But thank, kq, for stating the obvious and allowing my brain to catch up. Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
We always killed snails by putting out bowls of cheap beer for them. They come to drink it-- love the stuff-- and drown. Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
And I swear, when we have enough money to mail a package to Sri Lanka (maybe after Christmas?) we are going to TJ's and getting you a big slab of dark chocolate, some truffles, and some chocolate orange sticks and sending them to you.
A bottle or two of dill won't be hard to throw in. Posted by breyerchic04 (Member # 6423) on :
I think it's worse than drown
Posted by quidscribis (Member # 5124) on :
Sugar and yeast in some water apparently does the trick as well. That's what I'll be doing next. But here's the problem.
I'll have to clean up the carnage. Fahim won't touch it. I hate dealing with things like that.
Sigh.
Mmmm, chocolate! Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Well, since they don't respire like we do, I think it's more like "suffocate all over their bodies/drown at the same time." Posted by theCrowsWife (Member # 8302) on :
Quid, you need ducks. They'll gobble up any snails and other bugs, and give you free fertilizer in return.
And if you're not too squeamish, roast duck is lovely
--Mel
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
quote:Originally posted by ketchupqueen: We always killed snails by putting out bowls of cheap beer for them. They come to drink it-- love the stuff-- and drown.
This is why I order a Margarita rather than a beer when I'm at a bar that is infested with snails and slugs.
The salt around the rim of the Margarita prevents the slugs and snails from getting into your drink.
Posted by kmbboots (Member # 8576) on :
quote: I think it's worse than drown
But maybe they would be drunk enough not to mind?
Best dill weed recipe:
Rotini pasta Cut up chicken (I use Purdue ShortCuts, 'cuz I am lazy) diced onion Miracle Whip (I suppose you could use mayonaisse) dill weed to taste grapes cut in half
Posted by pH (Member # 1350) on :
If you like dips for veggies or chips or whatever, but you don't like sour cream, you can make a tasty dip out of cottage cheese, worchestershire (thanks, mack!), relish, dill, and grated cheese.
I love that stuff.
-pH
Posted by breyerchic04 (Member # 6423) on :
Wait there's something other than Miracle Whip? Well it's never been in my house. Neither has any worchestershire either than Lea and Perrins.
Posted by theCrowsWife (Member # 8302) on :
I've done that chicken salad recipe with wild rice instead of pasta. And of course mayonnaise, because Miracle Whip is nasty and I don't permit it into my house
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I've just recently been able to find dill seed at the grocery store. I have no idea if it's treated or untreated for it to not grow, but I'm willing to give it a try. ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
Anyway, there are still more. The previous occupant, the owner, doesn't know anything about plants or pests and didn't seem to care. Ah well.![[Evil Laugh]](graemlins/evillaugh.gif)