Comments on: Basic Necessity – Fresh Gherkins & Thyme

By: palengkera

palengkera — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 07:54:00 +0000

Basic Necessity’s lettuce got its certificate for Good Agricultural Practices by BAFPS. GAP is like ISO for agricultural produce.

By: renee

renee — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 10:11:28 +0000

thanks edee!

By: honey

honey — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 09:13:05 +0000

MM, I have just purchased growing thyme, tarragon and rosemary at the Sidcor market at the Lung Center. the guy selling it said not to water the thyme and the tarragon daily. I’m keeping my fingers crossed that these will thrive

By: edee

edee — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 14:37:33 +0000

renee, yup that would be the lemon, happen to me too when i put lemon slices in what i’m cooking/baking…..

By: Krizteene

Krizteene — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 06:00:53 +0000

I just wish we have all the herbs, fruits, vegetables and other stuff you buy in Manila here in Pampanga. Until now, I haven’t found any good establishment here where I can buy them aside from SM Hypermarket in Clark and sometimes, at Robinson’s in Balibago, Angeles City. But they don’t have all of them and their stocks are also very limited… is there anyone here from Pampanga who knows any good place where I can buy them?

By: joey

joey — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 00:24:10 +0000

I have bought some of their “salad time” stuff…i like them too! Your heads up on thyme come is quite timely for me…my thyme plant is in it’s death throes! :( I guess it wasn’t so bad, i had her for 2 months…but still…sob!

By: renee

renee — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 17:08:19 +0000

I am “herb-challenged”, I have absolutely no idea how to use herbs, but i really appreciate them in my food when I eat out. I only know that basil + tomatoes + mozarella on really crusty bread with olive oil is heaven, other than that i’m totally clueless. So, basically I want to say, thanks for the tip and i’ll continue to experiment.

By the way, the other day I tried to make Kotopoulo lemonato (part of get-over-being-herb-challenged experiments) I added lots of garlic, thyme (dried), some olive oil, whole pepper corns and then lemons, baked it till all the juices came out – it tasted great actually, but there was something slightly bitter, might it be the lemon? (apart from marinating it, I added lemon slices) or maybe it’s the dried thyme?

By: Maria Clara

Maria Clara — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 16:29:25 +0000

Thyme is indispensable herb either fresh or dried. It goes well too on grilled vegetables and potatoes. They also use thyme in those gourmet tuyo, dulong and daing. I savor pickled gherkins with my chicken, turkey and tuna sandwiches.

By: MEL WOOD

MEL WOOD — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 07:58:04 +0000

Is your recipe for pickled gherkins the sweet type? Can you share it with me please? I had some gherkins this summer but did not know how to pickle them so they just ended up in the rubbish bin. Pickled gherkins here are not the sweet type we have back home.