How to Store Them
When you harvest herbs from your garden, you have several options.
- Wrap the fresh cuttings in cheese cloth and place the bundle directly into soups or stews.
- Dry them for use later in the year. To dry herbs, gather small bunches of herbs and bind them with rubber bands. Then hang the bundles from a coat hanger or bamboo stake in a dark, dry location (such as over the water heater) until they are crisp.
- Another way to preserve your herbs is to pour chicken broth in an ice cube tray, lay in a few leaves of your favorite herbs, and freeze. When it is time to cook, simply empty out a few cubes of the herbed broth and add them to whatever you are cooking.
- Place basil leaves on a cookie sheet which has been lined with waxed paper and place the tray in the freezer. Once the leaves have frozen, remove them from the sheet and place them in a small plastic bag. The freezing prevents the leaves from clumping together.
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