Friday, April 8, 2011

Friday flowers

We are big sage lovers around here. I like it in pancakes, added to mac and cheese, on pizza, sauteed with cabbage, grilled with pork chops, stirred into risotto, baked in quiche. And I haven't even posted about my undying love for sourdough bread and sage stuffing.

Clevelandii sage is my very favorite, and the variety I have planted in our little garden is lackluster by comparison. So I took some sprigs of Clevelandii sage from my mother's garden and I'm going to let them root and then transplant them.

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I just cut some stalks from the original plant, making sure to get the woody portion of the stems. Then I put them in a jar of water which I refresh every other day. Fingers crossed, I'll have some new sage babies soon. This does work - I tried it with basil last year!

21 comments:

  1. martha stewart has an amazing recipe for sage & sauteed butternut squash; i hadn't been a big sage-user, but that recipe changed me!

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  2. hooray for sage. the best part is you'll have a beautiful glass jar full of the stuff until the little roots grow!

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  3. i really love sage with butternut squash as well! i also have a cream sauce that i switch up with sage or tarragon, it's pretty tasty!

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  4. Sage in pancakes, huh? I'll have to try that. It's an unusual herb...all hairy.

    Good luck on your little sage babies!

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  5. Beautiful! I love sage too!

    Have a great weekend Rachel!

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  6. i would never have thought to put sage in pancakes! i'll have to try that

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  7. what a clever way to multitask. i love how thistle-y the sage blossoms are; beautiful!

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  8. So beautiful. I love sage, especially on pizza. Whole leaves of it! But in pancakes? That intrigues me...

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  9. So I started sage with all of my other fresh herbs, and we were semi intimidated with what to do with it. This just saved our herb pot! :)

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  10. Lovely photo and great tip! Sage is the herb I have least experience with! I must try to experiment with it! xxx

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  11. Wait, lady, do you ax-ually COOK with Cleveland sage?! That stuff is so gorgeous, but soooo pungent! Do tell. I grew a Cleveland sage to be about five feet tall and wider than I could reach around in our desert garden in Joshua Tree, and it was my absolute FAVORITE plant- so resilient, the bees loved it, smells so marvelous...had never heard of it before moving to CA. Hope I can get it on the east coast. Hope yours roots and you get babies!
    xoxo

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  12. oh my goodness all those recipes look incredible.

    joybelamarich.blogspot.com

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  13. I am all about the sage too. . . Even write a bits of sage feature. Love, love your blog.

    Stephanie@rhinspirations

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  14. Guys, I know the sage in pancakes sounds totally weird! I wasn't even sure it would be okay when I decided to try making them. But I actually like it (note - I REALLY like sage, so if you are on the fence, this probably isn't the recipe to introduce yourself to it.)

    @ Lily - Yup! It is pungent and amazing and I prefer to cook with it. I do taste as I go along, to make sure things aren't getting too intense. But now that I'm used to it, the standard culinary sage just tastes bland. The Clevelandii has a really different flavor to me - not just more intense, but also better.

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  15. i love me some sage as well. have a wonderful weekend!

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  16. I want to get a an herb garden growing for me this summer-now I am convinced it must include sage!

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  17. there is something beautiful about sage, rosemary and sea salt in olive oil with a fresh crust bread dipped in. divine.

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  18. I LOVE sage. I'm crossing my fingers for you. Sage babies. Sage babies.

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  19. P.S. I wanted to let you know that I awarded you with the one lovely blog award. I always enjoy your posts and your "clean" pictures always being some calm into my workday. :)

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