Food Blog: A New Way To Use Summer Herbs

Herb Compound Butter

In the summer, I'm always hunting for different ways to use the herbs we grow on our back deck. When I've blended up a million batches of pesto and tossed together fifteen pasta salads, I start to wonder, "What next?" I thought to make these compound butter recipes when I was dreaming up ways to serve corn on the cob. I imagined slathering it with butter and sprinkling it with herbs, but then I thought, "Why not put the herbs in the butter? First, I experimented with chives and dill. The resulting herb butter was so rich and flavorful that I wanted to make compound butter with every herb I could. Basil? Sage? Thyme? Yes, and!