Tl;dr version — this diary contains veggie and non-veggie tarragon recipes and ideas, as follows:
- The way Mr pixxer and I first discovered tarragon — in Bearnaise sauce
- Two completely different chicken breast, top-of-stove recipes — the one in the main photo, and another served over confits of carrots and of scallions
- An unusual and delicious potato salad (veggie)
- Salmon cooked in tarragon cream sauce (that’s basically the whole recipe right there)
- Links to two dishes with asparagus: risotto and bread pudding (veggie), and a new risotto, too
- Random ideas without recipes: (perking up flavorless baby carrots; omelette; salad dressings)
All the recipes are for two people unless otherwise noted.
Mr pixxer and I were fortunate to be able to travel to London back in the nineties, and we ate at a restaurant touted as one of the best in London. (This was in an article about how we have to stop joking about English cuisine being awful — which is true!) The staff seemed a bit snooty to us; I imagined they were thinking “Oh, Americans — they’re just ignorants who know nothing about fine food.” I also imagined saying “My favorite local restaurant is Chez Panisse — perhaps you’ve heard of it?” But I didn’t. Anyway, they probably did think we were ignorants b/c when the meat (beef? lamb?) arrived with accompanying Bearnaise sauce, we decided we liked the sauce better on the potatoes than on the meat, and ate it thusly.
But wow, we LOVED that sauce, and vowed (ok, we must have been ignorants, actually) to look up the recipe to find out what that fascinating herb was. And it was (as you may have guessed...)
Tarragon
So we tried to find good ways to use tarragon, and we also now grow it. In the garden, it sleeps under the dirt in a large pot for the winter and peeks out in early spring, thriving in the summer months. It turns out “tarragon” was not previously in the tag list at dailykos, so I guess this is our first for WFD :)
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