Comments | bees4breakfast: with a basil infusion

bees4breakfast

with a basil infusion

Jan 17, 2008 19:10

my fridge always, always smells like rotting basil. i'm really not sure why this is. yes, i go through a lot of basil, but it could be a week or more since i've had any in the fridge, and the fridge will still reek of it. i just took out a block of expensive cheese i'd splurged on and had really been looking forward to enjoying, and even though it ( Read more... )

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stereophonicrpm January 17 2008, 12:37:53 UTC

throw some baking soda in that shit, yo.

all absorbing bad smells and stuff

arm and hammer fo' lyfe.

bees4breakfast January 17 2008, 13:00:54 UTC

i have already got two paper plates all up in there, with hella baking soda on them. at all times. AND STILL THE ROTTING BASIL.

stereophonicrpm January 17 2008, 21:54:49 UTC

Then only one explanation is left: basil ghosts

bees4breakfast January 19 2008, 23:09:31 UTC

or that someone has deviously woven basil fibers into the plastic material of my fridge.

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bees4breakfast January 19 2008, 23:00:07 UTC

it lasts longer in the fridge. i store it standing up in water in the fridge. when i buy a bunch, i often use it over the course of two or three days, unless i'm making something that requires a huge quantity. once it starts to wilt/rot, though, i throw it away! so why the smell!

crapdick January 17 2008, 15:14:31 UTC

yeah i have had this problem before, too. it is hellums nastums. you know, if you hang basil upside down in a dry place (not your fridge), it will dry instead of rotting, and dried basil is still totally usable (that's what you get in the jars you can buy in the spice section at the grocery store).

bees4breakfast January 19 2008, 23:01:35 UTC

i've never used dried basil before! whole dried herbs (like, as in, not finely minced and disguised/rehydrated in a sauce or something) freak me out. it's the texture. i agree that the problem is hellums nastums!

anonymous January 17 2008, 18:05:01 UTC

Clearly, you need both an old priest and a young priest.

-Dev

hoboscratch January 18 2008, 05:24:06 UTC

Grow your own goddamned basil already. It's easier than making pie (maybe even easier than eating pie!), and nothing beats pesto made with freshly-picked basil leaves. Best of all, you'll never need to put it in the fridge. Ever.

PROBLEM RESOLVED, CRISIS AVERTED

eggstorm January 19 2008, 14:05:28 UTC

agreed! you live in the perfect place for fresh herbs.

bees4breakfast January 19 2008, 22:52:50 UTC

i agree with both of you that growing my own would be the best solution. however, the only growing space i have is a tiny, tiny balcony, and i just feel like that's so fucking sad... to grow herbs on a tiny balcony. an admission to myself that i'm confined in an urban prison. up until this point, i've been waiting until i can make a proper herb garden in the ground. that day will come, not too far in the future, but maybe you're right. perhaps in the meantime i should be growing my own.

it's mainly that i feel like i'll be abusing the plants by confining them to my tiny, awful balcony. i've got this holdover belief from childhood that every living thing has a soul.

hoboscratch January 22 2008, 12:02:37 UTC

i always used to get upset and cry a little when adrian would stick knives into trees, because science class told me they were alive and they bled and all. then he would stick it in further and laugh to torment me some more.
i'd go back later and climb the tree and secretly hug it where he had cut it when he wasn't looking.

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