Our days are filled with long walks and long lunch breaks in different parts of our peninsula. So far weather is so good and I believe I already got some suntan. One of the main activities of the season is to pick wild greens and herbs. Local ladies are extremly succesful in finding them and farmers market is full of wonderful greenstuff every week. Favorite salad of the season is to make one with mixing 7-8 different herbs and greens.
As we are rather amateur in finding them we settled with the easy ones where you could find almost everywhere. Our picks were fresh thyme and french lavender.There are different types of thyme but I like the taste and the smell of the ones that we took.
To make tea from the flowers of the french lavender is good for many health problems and known to be protective against cancer. We use fresh ones nowadays but dried ones are also good for winter months.
wonderful ! Have a lovely weekend
ReplyDeleteThis reminds me of Armenia! We'd drive out in the country and everywhere you'd see women hunched over in the fields picking herbs. The hills and mountains there are pure and untouched by human agriculture so the herbs are full of good nutrients.
ReplyDeleteThe Armenians have a long tradition of using herbs for everything that ails you, and I hope their knowledge doesn't get wiped out by modern medicine!
how nice that you can gather your own.
ReplyDeletei just bought small pots of herbs and have them by the bbq grill..for easy snips while cooking outside :)
I bet it smells good too.
ReplyDeleteSo good you take time to enjoy.
Relax and enjoy yourselves.
ReplyDeleteahhh the aroma must just be divine! beautiful
ReplyDelete~laura
It must smell wonderful there!
ReplyDeleteTime spent collecting herbs sounds like a magical perfect thing to me. I can almost smell them from here...
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