Good Eating Monday: Herb Savvy with Pineapple Sage
Today's Good Eating Topic is Herb Savvy with Pineapple Sage: Pineapple sage can fool you when you see it on the herb shelf at your local southern garden centers, because it's so small. It grows into a moderate size shrub: 30 inches tall to 36 inches wide, has red flowers and hummingbirds like it. But what else is it good for? Well, cooking for one. Just add the chopped leaves at the end of cooking time: *Use in chicken and pork dishes, cream cheese, jams, jellies and fruit salad. (Really yummy with pork!) * Pineapple sage can stand in for regular sage in almost any recipe. * The flowers, with their citrus-mint flavor, can be tossed into salads and teas. *The leaves can be used to flavor teas. It can also be used as a dried as an aromatic in home-made potpourri or sachets. Planting & Care: This is definitely more of a southern herb for zone 8 to 11. If you plant it further north, it will require heavy mulching or a pot you can move indoor...