Originally Posted by corky

Basil isn't only for a caprese salad. It is good mixed with lettuce in almost any salad (I know that you don't eat anything green and leafy but others do so I am mentioning it), it is good with potatoes, in rice, I loved it mixed with softened butter over fish (salmon, halibut, shrimp, scallops), of course it is always good with pasta, whole basil leaves on sandwiches, chopped over avocado and of course you can always make pesto. Google basil and tons of uses will come up including the eggs mentioned here.