My wife is STILL trimming rosemary - more than a pillowcase would hold!!!

[luv_mykatz]

7. This reminds me of a story from the early days of my own marriage.

My former husband wanted to make his mother's recipe for dressing for Thanksgiving that year. He got the recipe from her, and we went to work on making it. However, we didn't realize that there would be a huge difference created by substituting my dried homegrown sage for the ground boxed sage his mother used in her recipe. Oh, my...that dressing would've worked great for clearing out a sinus infection! Yummy, it wasn't. We figured out later that homegrown and dried herbs can be much stronger than ground up (powdered) herbs in a box from a supermarket.
It is funny to think of it now, but we were sure surprised and disappointed, all those years ago.