Fresh herbs are a wonderful thing. They complement many dishes. They take other food, that is otherwise good, and then brighten everything. In the past few years I have been using more and more fresh herbs. I wonder where they have been my entire life?
I’m using mostly parsley, basil, and cilantro. These have proven to be cheap, easy, and most useful with the food I make. Tossing some of these in are just huge flavor bombs. They are a superb culinary investment if you can grow them where you live. Screwing around with the herbs can also be a relaxing little hobby. I am so happy I started using these herbs, and wish I had started with them earlier.
I guess no one told Young Nehemiah that fresh herbs were so much better than the dried herbs I was used to using. I missed out on years of tastier food. So this is me telling you to start growing, or buying fresh herbs now and then. Your food will be tastier and more bright. A few cilantro leaves might brighten more than your salsa. I know I can use them to just brighten the day as a whole. This can all be filed under “Silly But True.”
If there is a larger lesson to be gathered here, maybe it’s that the smallest, cheapest, and easiest thing can have profound impacts. For the price of a trip to the coffee shop, you can elevate your meals. You can’t really mess it up either, you chop the herb, and put the herb on food. We can all do that. There are probably a hundred things out there like herbs we should be incorporating into our lives. We just have to go out and find them.