Very well done. I love sage too, but now I know a lot more about it.

Thanks, Shirlee.

I love your daylily avatar. I've been meaning to tell you that. It has beautiful ruffles and such a soft soothing color. Normally yellows don't soothe, but this one does.

Yellow is not my first choice of colors, but this one has won my heart with the ruffles.
And I tell it so too. Glad you enjoy.

I could smell the fragrance of Thanksgiving while I was reading your article but like Shirlee, now I know a whole lot more about this plant.

Thank you so much Sharon

Thanks a lot, Sharon I could swear the house was filling up with the warm down home smell of sage while I was reading this article. Makes me want to make dressing!

I just realized that I have some blue salvia (I believe it is May Night) but I don't believe that is the kind one would cook with.

Shirlee, yellow is not my first choice in flower color either even though I have several, but your avatar is a very pretty daylily.

We might all have to have a 'Sage night' sometime soon.
Made me hungry just writing the article.

Thanks, Ladies.

Thanks for another interesting and informative article, Sharon,


I like sage, in moderation, in my Thanksgiving cornbread dressing, it would not be the same without a bit of this pungent herb.

The Native American traditions of burning it to cleanse the air, mind and body is interesting too. I don't know if it works, but it is interesting.

Others also make a tea to relieve fever and sore throat.

A few leaves in the bath water is said to relieve sunburn.

And it's nutritional.
A very good plant.
Thanks, Marilyn.

Sharon,
I've always enjoyed sage, but your article has helped me appreciate it in many more ways. Thanks!
LariAnn

Hey you!!
Thanks and it's so nice to see you again. I sure hope things are good down your way.

Can you tell me what variety of sage you plant?

I just went out and chewed a leaf from a plant I had put in in the spring, called tri-colored, and it had almost no taste at all.

I was going to use it to make chicken breast Saltimbocca. Guess I will need to go shopping to find some with a bit more flavor.

Next year I would like to plant something a bit more tasty.

Saliva officinalis: Culinary Sages (Salvia officinalis)

It's commonly called culinary sage and the only one I'd ever use in the kitchen.

Wonderful informative article! Thanks, Sharon.

I use sage a lot. We usually cook a turkey breast every two weeks, and have some stuffing along with it.

Last year for the first time I tried Salvia elegans 'Golden Pineapple'. It's a beautiful ornamental, but also edible. I made grilled pork chops with grilled pineapple on the outside grill, and made stuffing with the sage. Delicious!

Hi Polly.
Thanks. I've never tried another sage for cooking. I'll have to remember your Golden Pineapple.

It has a very strong pineapple taste. I always grabbed a few leaves to eat when passing by. It's not a hardy perennial, though.

Well then you had a well blended dinner! I would have enjoyed all of it; well, I would have left the pork chops for you.

Or Russ. I ate a ton of the grilled pineapple rings.

How was the sage on the pineapple rings?
More pineappl-y?

I didn't put the sage on the pineapple rings, just in the stuffing. Now I want it again. Maybe tomorrow. I love grilled fruit.