May I please please have a bit of your lemongrass? Promise to dig out some recipes. My very favorite is the superbly flavorful Thai chicken soup which uses coconut milk. Would love to surprise my daughter with some.

Drooling across town from you,
Rosie in Sugar Hill

Try looking in the Herbs forum. I go in there occasionally and they will have recipe posts.

Sugarhill, here's a good link that describes how you can add it to many dishes: http://www.globalgourmet.com/food/kgk/2003/0603/kgk062003.html

I love to use it with sauted spinach. I saute in a bit of water, with some garlic then add lemongrass and I like some pepper. When it's done I add a drizzle of pure virgin olive oil (for the taste). Delectable!

GGG

GGG, that spinach sounds so good. I saute it in olive oil with some garlic and bannana pepper and add halved cherry tomatoes at the end. Sauteed with lemongrass and garlic sounds wonderful. I found directions for lemongrass in a vinaigrette to pour over sliced tomatoes. That turned out to be really good.
If ya'll have other ideas for using lemongrass, keep them coming. I need to start thinking outside the Thai box - to use a really worn out phrase. Maybe I'll bring something with lemongrass in it to the fall swap - not the lemongrass sorbet.

I would put it in anything that I enjoyed a lemon taste in! Why not slice some up and freeze them in ice cubes. They would make such a pretty and delicious addition to anything. Or why not put some in a jug of cold water overnight and enjoy it the next day after a sweaty session of weeding in this oppressive heat?

And last of all, how about a fruit sorbet? That is easy to make, we used to make sorbet as kids in flat pans. We'd grind up fruit (tropical fruit would be fantastic with lemongrass) and freeze it in flat pans, scraping it once every two hours for a few hours. Delicious for a special evening!

GGG

Well you got me to thinking....

We have a Thai (Bangkok) woman who is staying with us for the next few weekends. She is here for some ministry training, and it is her first time in the US.

She wants to try American food, but we're wanting to try real Thai food as well.

So... I went to Pike's this afternoon and got a couple of Lemon grass plants! I don't even have it in the ground yet, but I'm already wanting to cook with it. And it is a nice looking grass too.

Oh, Woody. Let me give you my recipe for lemongrass sorbet - so few desserts taste like soap - LOL.
I did try the coconut rice on the link GGG posted. It was good. Easy too.
Isn't lemongrass a pretty plant. Wait till it grows some - mine is about 2 feet now and looks so nice arching over the oregano. Now if I could just figure out how to get dill to survive. It's the herb I use in everything, and I just can't get it to thrive - even in a pot with plenty of sun and well drained soil. Anyone know the secret to growing dill?