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I really enjoy learning to cook food from other countries, especially a couple of my favorite Mexican meals. What about you? Like me, you raise a lot of the ingredients if you start your own themed kitchen herb garden.

You can cultivate the major herb plants in your own garden and have the freshest ingredients to add to your recipes, or experiment on your own.

A themed kitchen garden can be grown in the ground or you can grow your themed kitchen garden in pots.

Look no further than these suggestions for your own themed culinary herb garden:

• Asian: There are so many different cultures and people in Asia, such as Thai, Chinese, Indian and Vietnamese, so how could the food be boring? Some fabulous herbs to cultivate in your Asian-themed garden are lemongrass, cayenne pepper, cardamom and anise. The licorice flavor of anise adds a warm sweetness to baked goods, soups and Indian dishes. You can also use it in tea and in baking a savory-sweet cookie. The growing popularity of Asian cooking has helped it fall back into favor in the US in recent years.

• Mexican: Not a week goes by when I do not chow down on a Mexican meal. I love to eat my favorite Mexican meals, including burritos, fajitas or quesadillas at least once a week. Can you even cook a real Mexican dish without Cayenne pepper, Cilantro and Garlic?

• Italian: Just about everybody I know has their favorite Italian pasta dish. Mine is lasagna, of course. The best I ever had was my mom’s which included all these great herbs: basil, fennel, parsley, garlic, marjoram, oregano, rosemary and thyme. You can add garlic to all your favorite Italian meals and savor the oniony taste! You can add it to your mashed potatoes or even roast it with some olive oil to eat it by itself. Be warned, the longer you cook it, the milder the taste becomes so do not overcook it!

• Middle East: Dishes from the Middle East and north Africa are growing in popularity these days. The flavors are so varied and the ingredients are so out of the norm for most of what I usually have in my recipes, such as chick peas, figs and couscous. Try these herb plants to spice up your Middle Eastern dishes: cardamom, garlic, parsley, rosemary and saffron.

• German: You can have your own Oktoberfest any time you like if you’ve got all the right German herb plants. These are a couple of the best and most often used in authentic German dinners: chives, dill, horseradish, sage and thyme. Horseradish, which is in the mustard family, is a wonderful condiment, opening the sinuses while adding tang to the taste buds. Use it to add some extra twang to beef, fish, cream cheese spreads, potato salad, mayonnaise and meat loaf.

Unless you use too much of your plant in cooking, your plant can keep growing and give you more ingredients for other meals. When you remove a few leaves from your sage plant, it will grow back. Oftentimes it will grow back bigger and fuller than it was before.

Good luck with your herb gardening. Be sure to let me know how your herb garden grows.

Here is more information on Fresh Herb Gardening. Here is a website with a free mini-course dedicated to Herb Gardens.

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