{"id":1304,"date":"2013-05-09T12:35:36","date_gmt":"2013-05-09T18:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/?p=1304"},"modified":"2013-05-09T12:35:36","modified_gmt":"2013-05-09T18:35:36","slug":"herb-alicious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/?p=1304","title":{"rendered":"Herb-alicious"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Anyone else doing this annoying thing where they go to Sprouts with their weekly ad in hand and buy whatever produce is on sale that week?\u00a0 I mean who cares if no one in the family likes eggplant (1 for 99 cents) or mangos (3 for a dollar).\u00a0 The price is right and you’ll eat what I make for you.\u00a0 And you’ll enjoy it.\u00a0 You’ll enjoy it as soon as I figure out how to make it.\u00a0 With a recipe that doesn’t involve going to Olive Garden for eggplant parm take-out.<\/p>\n

As for the mangos, I don’t need any recipes.\u00a0 I just need to know how to cut those slippery sumbitches.<\/p>\n

And you know what else I bought while I was there?\u00a0 Herbs (say it the way Martha Stewart says it, or\u00a0don’t say it at all<\/a>).\u00a0 Fresh herbs.\u00a0 Let’s see…from the “3 plants for $10” table I bought chives, parsley and lemon thyme.\u00a0 And from a separate table I bought basil.\u00a0 (2 plants for $4 – because who doesn’t LOVE basil?!\u00a0 Except for my kids.\u00a0 Who are\u00a0weird and annoying with their anti-herb stance on life.)<\/p>\n

Not only will I be saving money this summer (especially when you consider that a bunch of herbs at the grocery store costs $2.99-$3.99 each but now I have my own replenishing supply) – but I’ll finally be living the Herb Dream I’ve always wanted to live\u00a0because I\u00a0have the\u00a0TIIIIME and energy to do so.\u00a0 I’ll transplant these herbs into cute pots and place them on my kitchen windowsill where they will flourish.\u00a0 And I will endlessly be sprinkling chopped chives or parsley over every dish I make so as to add some fun color and flavor to every meal.\u00a0 All the ideas I’ve ever seen in Good Housekeeping and\/or Home & Gardens for cute, fun, zippy herb dishes will finally be mine!\u00a0 Mine I say!!!\u00a0 I mean, who doesn’t LOVE salad caprese for dinner on a warm summer day?\u00a0 Or how about a flavorful omelet sprinkled with chives on a lazy Sunday morning?\u00a0 And who’s not willing to at least TRY a bite of goat cheese drizzled with olive oil and sprinkled with lemon thyme.\u00a0 Anyone?\u00a0 Anyone??\u00a0 Right!\u00a0 I rest my case.<\/p>\n

The problem is that the plants will never get repotted.\u00a0 I’ll forget to water them.\u00a0 They’ll get too much sun.\u00a0 They’ll die within the week.\u00a0\u00a0I’ll resort to\u00a0sprinkling rancid, dead stuff on my family’s food.\u00a0 Everyone will get the runs.\u00a0 And I’ll be out fourteen bucks.<\/p>\n

I should have just driven past Sprouts and thrown fourteen bucks out the window of the car – along with their %^&*ing flyer – and saved myself some TIIIIME and\u00a0herb angst.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Anyone else doing this annoying thing where they go to Sprouts with their weekly ad in hand and buy whatever produce is on sale that week?\u00a0 I mean who cares if no one in the family likes eggplant (1 for 99 cents) or mangos (3 for a dollar).\u00a0 The price is right and you’ll eat […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1304"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1308,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304\/revisions\/1308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}