[Sca-cooks] Lovage, Lovage, who's got the Lovage?

[Anne-Marie Rousseau]

I concur with my neighbor Aleianore, right down to "the stuff will take over my yard if I let it!"

its nice living here :). so many cool medieval plants grow easily :). FYI, sorrel will grow like 
a weed if you let it. oops.

--Anne-Marie, in Madrone, AnTir, who is going to plant parsley root this year :)


On Wed Apr 26 16:50 , "Rikke D. Giles"  sent:

>On 2006.04.26 12:43, Aurelia Rufinia wrote:
>> 
>> Lets talk lovage.
>
>  I've a huge growth of lovage (sounds like a condition really, and  
>under certain circumstances it is).  It grows like gangbusters here.   
>We've little seedlings here and there which I have to weed out, but  
>we've also a stand of it at about 2-3 feet tall right now, and  
>heading on up to it's 8-10 foot maximum.  Things just grow bigger  
>here in the NW.
>
>As for celery, it's a far better subsitute for lovage than parsley.   
>Lovage is extremely strong 'celery' tasting.  So much so that one or  
>two leaf fronds can take the place of a whole head of celery in a  
>dish.  Now, Black Lovage is different, being an annual, much more  
>delicate and having a slightly different flavor.  It does reseed  
>itself every year for us.
>
>If I can figure a way to send some fresh lovage your way, I am  
>willing to do it.  Other than that, I would say that celery is the  
>only really good substitute.
>
>YS,
>
>HL Aelianora de Wintringham
>Barony of Dragon's Laire
>Kingdom of An Tir
>