My Thursday Favorites #24 Contest Entry - Herbs!

I never ate herbs when I was morbidly obese and thought getting them was a waste of money. What good is a small amount of greens in the larger scheme of things?

The fitness trainer I was working with to lose weight had different ideas, and he was the one who got me to try them. He advised me that there were more health benefits in food that is vibrantly colored.

I later found references to say that strong color idea was true, so I always go for the darkest green I can find. I don't really care which herb it is. I love them all now!

This first photo is from my early days of getting healthy in California. This batch of Italian Parsley came from the Coronado Farmer's Market and I did a photo shoot to show how I made sure to prep them after buying. It's no good to let them rot in the fridge!

Here I am washing my purchase in baking soda. Herbs have a lot of dust and dirt on them, so they must be washed before you do anything else.

Now my parsley is washed and picked off the biggest stems. I have since learned to use kitchen scissors for this instead. Much quicker!

Herbs get a lot smaller in volume once you cut them up.

I learned to dry some of my herbs in my oven overnight. I did not turn the heat on. I stirred a few times and the greens would be dry in a day or two. Then I used them in soup and stew.

Oh my goodness. I miss this! Bangkok herbs washed and ready. A whole new world of yummy, cheap and healthy food opened up to me when I arrived in SE Asia. I do get herbs in Malaysia now, but those in Thailand are superior.

Are these herbs? I have no idea, but you wrap your protein and rice up in these delights and pop the result into your mouth when you eat at my Thai friend's house in Bangkok.

Here is one of the first times I got dill when I arrived in Bangkok a few years ago. I was crying with joy, and couldn't believe my luck.

And look at this fabulous Thai dill With a lime for scale. You see maybe two thirds of the amount I got for 60 cents usd.

And next you see maybe 50 cents worth of herbs from Northern Thailand. I lived there for a few months and the herbs were even cheaper than in Bangkok.

I paid 30 cents usd for a bunch that would be as big as my arm. Then I would get many of them and have trouble carrying the weight out of the local market.

I was out in the middle of nowhere, and the market came twice a week. The vendors spoke no English and loved to see me. I was thrilled with their huge bundles of herbs.

They must have thought I had 50 people eating with me somewhere for how much I bought from them each time. Each pack was only five or ten cents!!! How could I stop? I couldn't.

Here is a short video I took of this same bounty wondering what I was doing with all this for only one person!

In my video I describe what I got and you can also see a bit of the scene up there in Thai paradise. I say in the video that I have $1.50 in value there, but my math was faulty! I need a calculator for such difficult arithmetic.

My post is for the Thursday ccc contest by @marblely where today's theme is - "My Favorite Herbs". I hope I will not be disqualified for not really having just one :)

Here is the call for entry post, so that you can enter too:

https://steemit.com/actifit/@marblely/actifit-marblely-20190523t144416648z

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