The Quicksilver Workaholic

I remember making some of the french herb mixtures many years ago..you put them in muslin bags and threw them into what you were cooking. I looked up ingredients..seems doable.

I also think if you google, there are places you can order from online..but i'd compare prices:)

Wikipedia:
The ingredients of fines herbes are fresh parsley, chives, tarragon and chervil[1]. These "fine herbs" are not the pungent and resinous herbs that appear in a bouquet garni, which, unlike fines herbes release their flavour in long cooking. Marjoram may be added to fines herbes. The marjoram and tarragon may be dried.

Herbes de Provence (Provençal herbs) are a mixture of dried herbs from Provence invented in the 1970's.[1]

The mixture typically contains rosemary, marjoram, basil, bay leaf, thyme, and sometimes lavender flowers and other herbs. The proportions vary by manufacturer. Thyme usually dominates the taste produced by the herb mixture.

Herbes de Provence are mostly used to flavour grilled foods such as fish and meat, as well as vegetable stews. The mixture can be added to foods before or during cooking or mixed with cooking oil prior to cooking so as to infuse the flavour into the cooked food. They are rarely added after cooking is complete.

Herbes de Provence are often sold in larger bags than other herbs, and the price in Provence is considerably lower than other herbs.

williams sonoma carries the standard/classic brand that comes in the cute little crock.

By the way, i appreciate and enjoy so much your online journal of thoughts and sketches. always a bright spot in my day!!

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Penzeys in Overland Park has both fine herbes and herbs de Provence. The cost is less than $5 each for the half cup size jar & the 1/4 cup jar is under $3 each. (You can buy up to a lb at a time, but you may have to do it through the mail or online). I use to order from them (great snail mail catalog) but now that the store is here I just go there because it smells so good. Of course if you have all the ingredients nothing beats making your own.

You did not mangle the French at all, my dear! :-)) Although the two are slightly different mixtures. Fines Herbes has tarragon, I think.
I happen to have a jar of Herbes de Provence that I brought back from France (I go every summer), so I looked at what it said for ingredients: savory, rosemary, wild thyme, marjoram, oregano, basil and thyme (regular I assume; I had to hit the dictionary for some or the others...) in various proportions, it says. Amount to use: as much as you like! :-)) I have seen similar herb mixtures for sale in the States, but often pricey; you can easily mix your own. I would go heavily on the basil/rosemary/oregano and easier on the others, as those flavors are typical of Provencal cooking, yum...