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Get smokin’ with herb wood
posted by Felicia D'Ambrosio
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| Photo l Felicia D’Ambrosio |
| Soak herb wood prior to smoking |
Keep your eyes peeled and your mind open in the Reading Terminal Market and you will come across all kinds of culinary inspiration.
$2 netted a bundle of Overbrook Herb Farm’s dried herb wood, a fragrant mass of the tough, woody stems of rosemary, bay and sage, at the Fair Food Farmstand.
Paul Tsakos, farmer and owner of Overbrook Herb Farm, gave us a few helpful hints on cooking with herb wood. “Soak it for about an hour in water — you want to create smoke, not just burn it up,” he said. “Then put it on the grill and put whatever you’re cooking on top of it.”
What would benefit from some herb smoke? Lamb comes immediately to mind, or a pork roast. You could bust some of the wood up and stuff it in a beer can for Beer-Can Chicken on the grill, or fast-smoke some salmon.
Cause when you’re smoking herbs, the possibilities are endless.
Overbrook Herb Farm herb wood, $2, Fair Food Farmstand, Reading Terminal Market, 12th & Arch, 215-627-2029, whitedogcafefoundation.com
