Favorite Recipes with Herbs

You can cook simply with basic, tasty herbs and liven up the old family favorites! Or try a savory new dish with herbs you grow or find at the grocery store. This newly revised edition of Favorite Recipes with Herbs features beautiful photos and hundreds of easy-to-use recipes, gathered and tested by the top herb shops in the country. The most popular herbs in cooking are all covered here—basil, parsley, rosemary, bay, lemon balm, thyme, lovage, chives, mint, sage, tarragon, oregano, marjoram, dill, and cilantro. Use herbs in your everyday cooking—for lunch, dinner, and even breakfast. Recipes include:

Bruschetta

Dilly Cheese Bread

Crab and Sage Bisque

Tarragon Chicken Salad

Spaghetti Squash Primavera

Rosemary Garlic Stir-Fry

Sage and Thyme–Stuffed Roast Chicken

Lemon Thyme Cookies

Phyllis Good and Dawn Ranck do all the work for you! Measurements are given for both fresh and dry herbs, so you don’t even have to worry about converting amounts. There are also tips for gardening and storing your herbs. Two indexes—one by herbs and one by recipe category—make Favorite Recipes with Herbs your go-to for planning your next menu.

For years, Dawn Ranck Hower has been growing herbs, cooking with herbs, teaching about herbs, and generally spreading her contagion about the little plants and the way they enliven food. She is an advocate of bringing herbs to everyone’s kitchens, not just to the cooking artists’. She is also the co-author of A Quilter’s Christmas Cookbook, Fix-It and Forget-It Cookbook, and Fix-It and Forget-It Recipes for Entertaining. Ranck Hower lives in New Holland, Pennsylvania.

Phyllis Good is a New York Times bestselling author whose books have sold more than 12 million copies. Good authored the national bestselling Fix-It and Forget-It cookbook series, the Fix-It and Enjoy-It cookbook series, as well as numerous other cookbooks and nonfiction titles. Good spends her time writing, editing books, and cooking new recipes. She lives in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

"I really like this cookbook by Dawn J. Ranck and Phyllis P. Good. They offer fantastic dishes using herbs to flavor a dinner, a light lunch, desserts and breakfasts. Measurements given for both fresh and dry herbs. Try this one." —The Cookbook Collector

"Because the publishers looked to home cooks and herb specialists around the country, most recipes are succinct, workable, and surprisingly fresh." —Central PA

"This is a book to enjoy and to provide a new wisp of taste for everyday eating, as they did in earlier days." —Come-All-Ye

"I am always looking for new herbal recipes, and this book gave me more than a good share of them." —The Herbal Connection