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Curmudgeoness

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2. It depends on what you are cooking.

Reply to AtheistCrusader (Original post)

Mon Jun 22, 2015, 12:17 PM

Jun 2015

If you are doing a pesto sauce, it would be a mortal sin to use dried basil. But to flavor a marinara sauce, dried could be acceptable if you know where the basil came from.

At least, that is the way I see it, maybe because I live in a place where I have to make due with basil that I dried before the frost hit.

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Fresh basil, or dried? [View all] AtheistCrusader Jun 2015 OP

Fresh, cultivated with tender loving care BainsBane Jun 2015 #1

It depends on what you are cooking. Curmudgeoness Jun 2015 #2

I agree completely edhopper Jun 2015 #4

Of course, nothing beats the smell and aroma of fresh basil leaves packman Jun 2015 #3

For left over pesto edhopper Jun 2015 #5

I make the pesto and then freeze it in sandwich bags. Heddi Jun 2015 #7

Dried basil is anathema. Warren Stupidity Jun 2015 #6

Depends AlbertCat Jun 2015 #8