Tuesday, September 22, 2009

holy basil

Mizell's Farms sells plant starts at the farmer's market - and I bought their holy basil on a whim once last year and fell in love with it. It's fantastic with beef or chicken - a much better basil flavor cooked with them than the Italian basil in the grocery store.

However, I ordered seeds for holy basil and the plant is verrrryyyy different - not the taste I was expecting.

So: From Mizell's - it's ocimum basilicum.

From seed, it's ocimum tenuiflorum. Which is better for teas and medicines.

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