Too many fresh herbs and you don’t know what to do with them??? Freeze them in an ice cube tray for use later in soups, stews and other dishes. They are so easy to do and economical too. Fresh herbs can be so expensive but growing your own over summer is a great way to go. Sometimes you have an abundance of them but freezing your herbs for use later will help you through the fall and winter.
Large bunch of basil or other herb, chopped
Ice cube tray
Water
Fill each cube with 1-2 tsp. of fresh herbs and fill with water. Freeze in the ice cube tray. Pop out the cubes and place in a Ziploc bag. Return them to the freezer. Now your tray is ready to go again.
What a great idea! The dill in our garden needs to be harvested and I was wondering what to do with it. It’s so potent that a very little goes a long way.
Tell me how it goes Jill with the dill. Should work just fine.
DOH! Chopped down one of the plants, got it all plucked off the stems, only to find that we don’t have any ice cubes trays!!!
Off to Stupid Store you go!!
Fantastic idea! Will definitely give this a try. These would be great for cooling down the kid’s soups too, and they’d end up with a little herby bonus when the ice-blocks have melted!
That is a great idea. My daughter is always putting ice cubes in her soup.
Great idea! Definitely going to try this… I always end up throwing away SO much basil…
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Great idea! I will do this with Mint and lime juice to serve with club soda.
Where I live, basil is hard to grow. Sometimes I find it in the grocery but always in huge bunches, and I never buy it because it wilts very easily and I’d never be able to store it.
I bring out the ice trays tomorrow! And then I look for some basil – bet I won’t find it now that I have a way to preserve it!
where do you get your ideas. fascinating and great shot.
This is my second season of this and it’s a big hit! It makes soups in the winter taste great. Guys, it’s the easiest points you can get for kitchen work.
My daughter used all of our ice cubes up already to cool her soup off. She loved them with the added flavor!!
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