Make Your Own Bouquet Garni

Bouquet Garni bundles with gift tags.

Bouquet Garni are little herb bundles that you toss in your soups, stews, and stocks to implement flavour.

The herbs are tied together in a bundle so that they are easily retrieved from the stock pot afterwards. Some bouquet garni are wrapped in a leek leaf before they are tied, while some are placed in cheesecloth just to keep everything together.

The classic French recipe is made with parsley, thyme, and sweet bay leaves. Chervil and tarragon can also be added.

To make a bundle of Herbs of Provence, you would bundle up some sprigs of thyme, oregano, and savory.

An Italian seasoning bouquet would contain basil, oregano, and rosemary, perhaps a bit of thyme and marjoram.

They can be made with fresh or dried herbs, can even be made with dried, ground herbs in a cheesecloth bundle.

At the end of the gardening season, I like to make the wee bundles, let them dry, and place them in a mason jar for use in winter, or to gift to friends and neighbours. The fresh taste of summer, even in winter.

If you make several kinds of bouquet garni, write the name of the herbs you used on the back of the tag. Place the tag around each bundle, or around the jar if they are all the same.

Check out these super cute tags you can get with hearts on them! I have my own tag maker but boy, I sure do like these!

This set is also super cute. Brown and white tags for gifting.

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You can grow a whole lot of herbs in a pretty pot on the patio.

Growing your own herbs is super easy, all you need is a pot! You do not need a large plot of land or a garden bed, a pot will work just fine. Fill it with your favourite herbs. Mine are rosemary, chives, thyme, parsley, and oregano. I grow mint, too, but in a different pot as it spreads so.

Use your herbs fresh in summer and dry them to use in your winter cooking.

Clip the herbs as needed and sheer them down at the end of the season to make your little bundles of Bouquet Garni.

These little bundles would be nice to add to your simmering potpourris, as well.

Happy crafting, and cooking, too... if you like that kind of thing ; )

I don't do much of the cooking stuff but love to make these for hubs, and to give as gifts

~ Tanja