Sunday, 4 July 2010

Quillquiña

I love Mexican food, the eating and the cooking of it and I thought it was about time I started to grow my own ingredients.  As we don't have a greenhouse, putting chillies out of the question, I settled on growing a South American herb called quillquiña.  It has a sharp, earthy citrus taste and used a bit like coriander in salsas although two or three leaves seem to be enough.   I started them off indoors in the spring


and finally decided now summer is here it is about time I placed them into the herb patch.  They should grow to be around 3 feet tall.


And my herbs really need a good long drink.  Time to see if there is any easy Inca or Aztec rain dances in honour of my new Latino import.

1 comment:

  1. I like veggie Mexican food too.

    I like the sound of quillquiña. I have to admit I had never heard of it until your introduced it to me. So Thanks. Hope it does wel now its in the ground.

    I am wishing the rain from Scotland heads your way. I would like a dry weekend.

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