Aromatherapy Cuisine: Using Your Favorite Oils to add Splash to Summer Foods
Monday, May 17th, 2010Spring’s seeds are finally turning into the fruits of summer! We’ve already worked our way through some of the leafy greens, such as chard, mustard and butter lettuce. Now we’re waiting on our heirloom tomatoes and carrots. Since last year’s blueberry success, you’re confident in this year’s prize of the garden: juicy peaches. Regardless of what specialties you’re nurturing this year, the long months of summer make us pause in gratitude for what the earth offers us each growing season.
Most of the year, we get our fruits and veggies from farms that are states, and sometimes even continents, away from home. Each summer, however, we put on our gloves, pull out the tools and accept the call of the home garden. The fruits of this fulfilling labor let us create dazzling, healthy meals. As anyone who’s ever harvested a basket of summer fruits and veggies from their own garden can attest, these simple ingredients produce the most extraordinary meals. If, however, your summer produce needs an added splash, you can cull a wide range of flavors from a surprising source: your essential oil repertoire.