"Jim Davis" > wrote in message
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> Dan Abel wrote:
>> In article >,
>> "Steve B" > wrote:
>>
>>> sold only in little pine needle shaped leaves? Can you buy it powdered
>>> or mashed? I looked, but didn't see it. I have an ulu with a cutting
>>> board made for it that has a depression in it matching the ulu. It
>>> works, but a lot goes flying.
>>>
>>> Is rosemary like bay leaf, intended to be cooked whole, then filtered
>>> out of the final dish?
>>>
>>> And IF I do crunch some up, and put it in the pork roast marinade (which
>>> I did tonight for tomorrow's meal), are the particles bitter, or do they
>>> dominate the taste?
>>>
>>> Tips on rosemary and its uses appreciated. No jokes about the real
>>> Rosemary, as I once dated her, and she was up for ANYTHING.
>>
>> I buy my rosemary from Penzeys:
>>
>> http://www.penzeys.com/cgi-bin/penze...srosemary.html
>>
>> I like to use the whole. The cracked is convenient when you don't want
>> those big needles in the finished dish, although I am happy to eat them.
>> Since the powdered doesn't keep that well, and I don't use it that often,
>> I grind the needles, whole or cracked, in my mortar and pestle. They
>> don't fly around if you are careful.
>>
> I have a rosemary bush in my yard and often when I'm BBQing I'll throw a
> branch of the rosemary on the fire. Adds some good smells and taste.

Have you ever used rosemary branches for the skewers for shish-kabobing
meat or seafood?
-g