New season garlic... and fresh dill

I bought a big bunch of fresh dill off the same man. It looks as if it has just been picked. It's dark green and crisp and releases it's pungent smell at the slightest touch. I'm looking forward to doing something creative with this too. I don't know what yet.... but, I do know of course, that I definitely shouldn't mix the garlic and dill. How do I know this? Well... a man on the telly told me a long long time ago...

I was probably about 12 years old - I hadn't developed any interest in cooking at that stage, but I quite enjoyed watching cookery programmes on the TV. That's what they're for anyway... they're not really about cooking, they're about entertainment. They're about watching some dick in a clown-suit jumping about, advertising things. As good as anything else on TV but, so there I was sitting watching the box and there's this plonker with a big white hat on. It was a BIG hat, really... and he was so po-faced, he looked as if he had a big stick up his arse. He was chopping up some dill to add to a sauce and he said something like, 'Of course, one never, ever uses garlic with dill..', meaning something like if you do, you'll look really stupid and everybody will know you canny cook.

So, where did he discover that universal truth, I wonder? It certainly wasn't in Georgia, where they pound the two ingredients to a pulp along with walnuts, mint, savory and coriander and add the sauce to almost everything they eat. It wasnae in Russia either, coz there they chop raw garlic and dill and sprinkle it on top of soup.

Why did that man think that? And more worryingly, because people can think what they like - it's up to them - why did he feel he had to instruct everybody else how to handle their herbs with such finality? But, I know the answer. he was an arsehole. Simply that.

So now I think I'm going to make something - anything, I don't know what and it doesn't matter, but it's going to have loads of dill and garlic in it. Anarchy in the kitchen. Wahay!