Dragynn's Lair

[Dragynn]

OMG.

I'm cooking some pork loin chops. I haven't marinated them, but I seasoned them with salt, pepper, and fresh basil from my garden, and i'm frying them in a cast-iron skillet, the oil is olive oil with basil blossoms. See, to keep your basil plants producing leaves, you need to pluck the blossoms when they appear, but the flowers have a super strong basil aroma/flavor all their own, so wasting them is just silly.

Pluck the blossoms and soak them in olive oil. Just leave them in the fridge, and add new blossoms as they appear, and more oil.

After a few months have passed, you can begin to use the oil to cook with, not only does it impart an amazing flavor, it is literally aromatherapy, and will make your whole house smell ludicrously good.

You can use it as part of an oil-and-vinegar dressing/dip too, I use wild chile pequins that grow here in Texas, and my own garlic, to make a chile/pepper sauce that's outtasight in of itself, but mixed with basil blossom oil, it's really just tooo sublime for words!