i have just recently started to try my hand at cooking and i bought some fresh herbs from my local supermarket.These were coriander, basil and parsley.i woke up the next day and they were completely flat!
I bought some more parsley that day as i needed some for a recipe and it only lasted a day again.
I was keeping them on my kitchen windowsill, is this the problem?

Please help as i really want to use fresh herbs in my cooking bt dont want to have to keep buying them all the time and how long should they last anyway?

Thanks

I either cut the stalks a little and put in water on the windowsill in kitchen or keep in a sandwich container with a little wet kitchen towel in the fridge - most can be frozen on a baking tray and then popped into bags and kept in freezer not quite as good as fresh but I find they work quite well!!!

If you have a food market close by then you will probably find that's the cheapest way to buy them HTH Keep up the cooking !!!

I live in a flat,so i dont have a garden ta get regulaur fresh herbs,also am disabled so cana get out ta the shops quickly.So if a recipe says " 1tsp of Freshly chopped basil"Is that the same messurment for dried basil out of a jar ?

usually dried herbs have a slightly stronger flavour so if you wanted to follow the recipe exactly use slightly less but the best way to judge is to go by your own tastes, add 1/2 a spon full and if you think it needs more add the other 1/2 all depends really on how much you like the taste of basil.

treat recipes as a basic guide (with the exceptions of some pastries) you can add as much or as little as you want to your tastes.