and what to do with a growing patch of tarragon.<\/p>\n
I planted some French tarragon some years back – just because. A beautiful herb with thin leaves growing on each sprig with a fennel like flavor. The first year, I transplanted the tiny plant from it’s 2″ pot and watched it grow. I didn’t really have many recipes in my repertoire that required tarragon. Come Fall it started to die off and by Winter it’s little home became a barren patch of dirt. I thought it had died \ud83d\ude41 Spring sprang and every Spring now it grows out of control through the Summer. I make attempts to incorporate them into dishes but never enough to really feel like I am taking advantage of this delicate herb. This year I hope to use this herb a bit more so here is the first recipe…<\/p>\n
Orzo Salad with Asparagus, Sun-Dried Tomatoes and Tarragon<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n 1 cup Whole Wheat Orzo Pasta<\/span><\/p>\n 1 bunch Asparagus, blanched; cut into 1\/3 inch pieces<\/span><\/p>\n \u00c2\u00bd small red onion, thinly sliced<\/span><\/p>\n 8 halves sun-dried tomato, soften in water then diced<\/span><\/p>\n \u00c2\u00bc cup extra virgin olive oil<\/span><\/p>\n zest of half a lemon<\/span><\/p>\n 4 sprigs of tarragon, remove leaves and chop<\/span><\/p>\n \u00c2\u00bc cup lemon juice<\/span><\/p>\n \u00c2\u00bd teaspoon sea salt<\/span><\/p>\n \u00c2\u00bc teaspoon black pepper<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Bring 3 quarts of water to a boil. Cook 1 cup of orzo pasta. Drain and cool with cold water. Drain well.<\/span><\/p>\n Put pasta in large bowl and toss with remaining ingredients. Season to taste with additional sea salt, pepper and lemon juice.<\/span><\/p>\n If you are not into orzo try substituting Quinoa, Faro, Bulgar, Rice, Buckwheat or any other favorite grain. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" and what to do with a growing patch of tarragon. I planted some French tarragon some years back – just because. A beautiful herb with thin leaves growing on each sprig with a fennel like flavor. The first year, I transplanted the tiny plant from it’s 2″ pot and watched it grow. I didn’t really […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recipes"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taodekitchen.com\/tasty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taodekitchen.com\/tasty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taodekitchen.com\/tasty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taodekitchen.com\/tasty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taodekitchen.com\/tasty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/taodekitchen.com\/tasty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taodekitchen.com\/tasty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taodekitchen.com\/tasty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taodekitchen.com\/tasty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nEnjoy!<\/p>\n