basil

Thai basil can be tasty, and other varieties of basil are also fun.

I've always been afraid that there would be not point in getting a basil plant because we'd strip it bare each time we needed basil.

Dumping it on pizza is quite good, and you can make a fine pesto from it (instead of basil).

Subtle flavors like spices are lost on me - basil, spinach, and mint all taste the same.

Trying not to mention how things are funded is a bit like Basil Fawlty trying not to mention the war.

It's pretty easy to grow basil or change your car's oil but Olive Garden and Jiffy Lube are still in business.

I've had an almost 100% success rate in cloning basil, much better than any other plant I've tried.

The varieties of basil we grow start out slow but grow really fast after a few weeks.

Would that be true if basil was going for $200 an ounce?

I don't know what we'll do with the starters for more plants, as I think we probably have enough basil.

Maybe add a little salt and basil while cooking.

Not only was Basil Fawlty based on a real hotelier, but the hotel is now advertising itself as 'The inspiration for Fawlty Towers.' I discovered this last week when I drove past it.

But, "too much basil" might be a nice problem to have.

Basil the Great (~329 to 379) wrote "to take the literal sense and stop there, is to have the heart covered by the veil of Jewish literalism.

Try searching for something like "basil".

Basil is really easy to grow in hydrocultures, it's much more difficult to grow in soil.

Basil isn't really easy to store either, it's not nearly as good if you bag it for a day or two.

Basil Fawlty is many things, but I wouldn't say reasonable is one of them.