Yesterday I harvested enough romaine lettuce (which is now not-so-red) and baby spinach to make a salad! I added some finely chopped basil and parsley, mix it all together and topped it with some roasted beets and fresh strawberries I got at the within-walking-distance farmer’s market and called it lunch! Pretty pleased with my first harvest.
Ok so maybe it wasn’t the first harvest. I had a much smaller version of a similar salad, without the spinach, with way too much parsley and some celery leaves that was not very good at all last week. Celery leaves = tough and not yummy in salad!
The romaine lettuce was not the best, crispest lettuce I’ve ever had, but it was definitely tasted just a little bit better because I had grown it myself! :-D
Didn’t think to take any photos, but the beets and strawberries added some really nice color… maybe next time.
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Day 50
Lactuca sativa var. longifolia
Harvesting
1.0 x bunch
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Day 44
Spinacia oleracea
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1.0 x handful
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Day 64
Ocimum basilicum
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Day 64
Petroselinum crispum var. neapolitanum
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1.0 x handful
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Comments
TangoFlowers wrote:
Celery leaves do have a use in the kitchen, even tho they dont go well in salads. I stick em in a freezer bag along with carrot tops, bug eaten leaves of kale and chard, onion skins, and onion root ends, strings off of string beans, shells off of shelling peas, radish foliage, etc.
Once I get about a 1 gallon ziploc bag full of this stuff saved up in the freezer, I use it to make my own soup stock :)
Posted on 22 Jun 11 (almost 2 years ago)
hotwired wrote:
I chop fresh celery leaves to add to maraconi salad and potato salad. Adds a little color and flavor. I love home-grown Celery. The difference between grocery store celery and cutting off a few stalks fresh from the garden is like night and day. Fresh celery has such an incredible flavor and freshness – totally unbelievable.
Posted on 22 Jun 11 (almost 2 years ago)
TangoFlowers wrote:
Very true about the difference in quality and flavor when its homegrown, hotwired.
Sounds like a nice tip, at least for people who enjoy potato and mac salads!
:)
However, nobody in my house will eat mac salad or tater salad unless we are having super tough times. They really dont care for it. Most of the people in my family dont like to eat things that are mayo based or heavy on carbs, and especially not something that contains both.
So even if I tried putting celery leaves on such a salad, the celery leaves still wouldnt get eaten, and then id have an earful from my family- and an uneaten mac salad or tater salad to feed to the compost pile or the dog too.
Posted on 22 Jun 11 (almost 2 years ago)
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