We Still Love our Basil!

by Ramona on October 21, 2014

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Ramona here with Ramona’s Basil Garden….

Ramona with BasilYou haven’t heard from us here at Ramona’s Basil Garden in a while…..Here it is 2024 and half the year is gone already!

Yes, We are still here! We’ve just been busy as bees enhancing and expanding…….that is pretty busy by the way!

We have a large presence on the web including websites on basil gardening, cooking, and plenty of social media sites, and of course who doesn’t have a Facebook page?  All that cooking and recipes go hand in hand with basil gardens and having a kitchen garden in general.  Enhancing your cooking with fresh herbs and basils is where it’s at!

On these sites, we discuss all kinds of different things concerning basil gardening, gardening in general, cooking, and recipes. And we do love recipes. One of our sister sites is called Digital Recipe Genie where I will have digitally delivered recipes right to your inbox.  Many of you know our passion is cooking and many times in a recipe, you can see me using basil in recipes to give that extra added taste and zest.

Plus, we try to give plenty of cooking tips, tricks and techniques.

So, if you haven’t heard from me in a while….this is why….we’ve been really busy expanding and growing our websites, Instagram and YouTube, and Facebook presence. It’s all good!

Ramona with Tomatoes in GardenHere is a link to our Facebook page for Ramona’s Basil Garden

And here you can find a YouTube Video of Ramona introducing her Basil Website from several years ago.  She has really expanded her basil garden since way back then.

We have a pretty good size YouTube collection and one really interesting series is a multi-week (24) video series on growing Roma tomatoes, or the information can be used for any other variety of tomatoes, that takes you step-by-step growing delicious Roma tomatoes I use in making the absolute best pasta sauce you have ever tasted.  “No kidding,” says my husband.

One of our newest websites is called Digital Recipe Genie and it is still a work in progress.  Here is a link to the Digital Recipe Genie website just so you can take a look and see what it looks like.

aweber tools boxAt Digital Recipe Genie I will have downloadable recipes with complete and I really mean complete written instructions along with complete video step-by-step instructions which make my recipes true “can’t fail” recipes.  Most of the time, the recipe will be a complete meal.  for example:  Huevos Rancheros will include  refried beans and how to make them from scratch, the Ranchero sauce and how it is made; the type peppers I use, tortillas, and that makes the meal complete.

Who are these recipes for?

Since most of these recipes are upscale, made from scratch meals, they are for anyone from young aspiring professionals who need to be able to cook a dish or two from scratch to impress their friends to Senior cooks who want the finer things life has to offer.  Of course….the step-by-step methods I teach are designed so that even a beginning cook who can follow directions will find success.

I will have an ebook on growing and maintaining your Basil kitchen Garden complete with a great many varieties of basil along with some of my most popular basil inspirited recipes.  Basil cinnamon cookies anyone?  Yep. I have that recipe.

OK – Good talking to you again and hope to see you soon on one of my websites or social media platforms.

If you have any questions or comments, please email me direct at: ramona@ramonasbasilgarden.com

Love your Basil,
Ramona

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