My husband got Basil. Thai Basil.?

Have you ever tried Pho', a Vietnamese noodle soup?

The soup includes noodles made from rice and is often served with Thai basil, lime, bean sprouts, and peppers that are added to the soup by the consumer.

You can also include in the soup shrimp, chicken or beef.

It's delicious!

Make a nice soup from the bones of the lamb and put the basil in it and serve it over bean sprouts, cooked noodles, a dash of fresh lime juice, thinly sliced and sauteed onion, carrots and celery and chopped cilantro.

Or make a Thai Basil pesto with garlic, ginger and coconut milk and serve with cooked noodles, peanuts and shrimp.

OR chiffonade the basil and add it to salads - tomato cucumber, orange and avocado, etc.

Rogan Josh, Lamb Shanks aspects 2/3 cup bitter cream a million tablespoon all-objective flour a million/2 teaspoon chili powder a million teaspoon floor coriander a million/2 teaspoon floor ginger 2 cubes hen bouillon 4 finished cardamom pods, broken a million (14.5 ounce) can diced tomatoes a million cup water floor nutmeg to flavor salt and floor black pepper to flavor 2 tablespoons cornstarch a million/4 cup water a million great onion, decrease into wedges 3 lamb shanks a million (15 ounce) can carrots, drained a million (15 ounce) can finished new potatoes, drained a million/2 pound button mushrooms, quartered (optionally available) instructions Stir the bitter cream and all-objective flour mutually in a small bowl till tender and set aside. In a separate small bowl, mixture mutually the cornstarch and water to make a paste. combine the chili powder, coriander, ginger, bouillon cubes, cardamom, tomatoes, water, nutmeg, salt and pepper in a medium saucepan; convey to a boil over intense warmth. Slowly upload the cornstarch paste to the tomato combination, stirring continuously; simmer for 2 minutes. do away with the saucepan from the warmth and slowly stir interior the bitter cream and flour combination. manage the onions around the backside of a slow cooker, lay the shanks on good of the onions and pour the arranged tomato combination over the beef. place the carrots, potatoes and mushrooms on good of the sauce. hide and cook dinner interior the slow cooker on intense for 8 hours. If cooking interior the oven, bake at 350 ranges F (a hundred seventy five ranges C) in a coated dish for 2 a million/2 hours

Thai basil is delicious and can be used in many recipes. Here is a good site for you to get inspired:

http://www.grouprecipes.com/thai-basil

Thai basil is slightly spicer than our Italian basil. I love it in my pho!

You want to know what you can cook, but you're refusing particular ingredients? Make something up, then, if you don't want specific advice.

Here's an interesting article that will tell you what you need to know about basil:

http://www.veg-world.com/articles/basil.htm