Seasoning food and hot drinks with herbs and spices will make your taste buds sound like this Christmas season

Seasoning food and hot drinks with herbs and spices will make your taste buds sound like this Christmas season

Something on the closer holidays lets you think of delicious casseroles directly from the oven and hot drinks, whose steam vertebrae get out of our favorite cup and make the rosy cheeks even rosier.

Why not add a new flavor that go hand in hand with the vapor vertebrae? With a pinch of fresh or dried herbs from the farmers' market to dine or hot drinks, the festivity in your home can be enriched, which penetrates all the senses. If all of our senses are nourished, it is delighted by our soul?

The most popular herbs and spices are sage, rosemary, mint, oregano, basil, dill, parsley, thyme and cinnamon. Reading about them alone brings the sparkling sights and Jingle-Jangle sounds of the holidays to light.

sage has a unique earthiness and bangs poultry and dressing with a hint of peppery taste in a unique way. After using grated sage for years, I decided to add something that is not so finely diced, our Thanksgiving dressing. My goodness, what a pleasure for our taste buds! Since then it has had vacation tradition in our house.

sage is also used by gourmet chefs to season soups, especially vegetable soups. No wonder that sometimes it is also called "garden salaries" or "kitchen sage". Many family recipe books have been filled with the gourmet spice mixtures made of rosemary, parsley, thyme, oregano, basil and dill in heirloom recipes that have been passed on by grandmother to bride for centuries.

mint leaves that are added to a carrot casserole refresh the palate and also refresh the plate on which it is served. If a meal likes the eye, it does so much more than is only thoughtless to spoon it out of a boring serving bowl. Imagine cooked carrots enriched with mint that shine and try to look out from a sparkling white serving plate with tiny minting branches. Add a halved Maraschino cherry that hugs a comfortably on one side to refresh the eye.

cinnamon is highly aromatic and in combination with sage, dried apples and honey results in a sharp cinnamon death, which the whole family can enjoy together. Pour a few slices of dried apples, a sage leaf and a tablespoon of honey with boiling water and stir with a cinnamon stick. The mixture can let her sleep so well that the next morning you will wonder whether you were sprinkled with fairy dust the night before.

How festive, how funny!