Description
Sage comes from the Latin salvus, "healthy, safe": for the ancients it was the protective plant, and it was never missing from monastery gardens.
In the kitchen we mostly know it with butter on ravioli, but it has many other lives. Blended raw with oil and nuts it becomes a fragrant pesto unlike the usual one; dried and crumbled, it flavours roast pumpkin and stews; two leaves in the cooking water of grains are enough to perfume them.
Its flavour is strong, slightly camphor- like, so use it with balance. A sage plant on the balcony is one of the most useful gifts you can give a kitchen: it survives almost anything and grows back generously.
In the kitchen we mostly know it with butter on ravioli, but it has many other lives. Blended raw with oil and nuts it becomes a fragrant pesto unlike the usual one; dried and crumbled, it flavours roast pumpkin and stews; two leaves in the cooking water of grains are enough to perfume them.
Its flavour is strong, slightly camphor- like, so use it with balance. A sage plant on the balcony is one of the most useful gifts you can give a kitchen: it survives almost anything and grows back generously.
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