Re: What are you eating from your garden today?

plantoid 5/27/2016, 6:07 pm

Still eating a few Asparagus tips most days , they go well as a side dish smothered in butter along with a bowl of rather thick potato ,celery , leek & onion soup made with home made chicken stock

**Scorpio Rising** 5/27/2016, 6:47 pm

CC, a lot of our bowls look like Beetles'!

Meat, I love the spring radishes. So mild. I did roast some radishes last year with other root vegetables, turnips, carrots, potatoes of various colors and it was really good! Surprised me! I think of radishes as cold salad type of thingies. My dad always liked salt on them! He even made radish sammies....bread, butter, salt. Yep. The Depression must have been great (pun intended). And onion sandwiches too. Which are actually pretty tasty.

Sounds delish, Dave!

**trolleydriver** 5/27/2016, 7:09 pm

So far the only thing I am eating from my garden is MM from mixing it and planting into it. Tastes rather bland and the white things are hard to chew. The good thing is that it retains water so that I don't need to drink as much on hot days. Razz

**Scorpio Rising** 5/27/2016, 7:18 pm

TD, now that is funny! Lots of fiber in there, however! Lol

bigdogrock 5/27/2016, 8:55 pm

What? Soak'em a little while and they get easier, but it is hard to clean off around my teeth, all 6 of em What a Face

. A little garlic helps too...

**Scorpio Rising** 5/27/2016, 10:01 pm

BeetlesPerSqFt 5/27/2016, 11:03 pm

Yesterday's bowl was re-runs (lettuce and two radishes), but today I had spinach! One variety is bolting (Dash) and the other (Butterflay) isn't, yet.

TD - LOL! I try to not eat the MM... but it's happened to me, too. And I somehow got one of the woodchips from the paths into the salad last week.

CapeCoddess 5/28/2016, 2:57 am

BeetlesPerSqFt wrote:

TD - LOL! I try to not eat the MM... but it's happened to me, too. And I somehow got one of the woodchips from the paths into the salad last week.

Pine needles and oak leaf bits here. I too think of it as extra fiber. Wink

But not so much the droplet sized slug I almost ate tonight.
Rolling Eyes

CC

BeetlesPerSqFt 5/28/2016, 8:08 am

CapeCoddess wrote:
BeetlesPerSqFt wrote:

TD - LOL! I try to not eat the MM... but it's happened to me, too. And I somehow got one of the woodchips from the paths into the salad last week.
Pine needles and oak leaf bits here. I too think of it as extra fiber.
But not so much the droplet sized slug I almost ate tonight.

CC

Ack. You've reminded me of the almost-ate that resulted in me now calling the snails in the garden 'crunchy slugs.' Cleaning up the garden has helped reduce their numbers, and they aren't as much of a problem in the raised beds.... but eew, I hate finding them crawling out of the salad spinner because it probably means there are more still in there.
If you eat slugs, be sure to prepare them properly (I was trying to find a picture of what my snails look like, and some how ended up here):
http://www.eattheweeds.com/are-slugs-edible-what-about-snails-2/
There's a recipe for slug fritters....

(Sanderson, please don't ask me to move that to the recipe section! Smile

)

**Scorpio Rising** 5/28/2016, 3:08 pm

I had escargot once or twice in a fancy French restaurant. They were delicious, drowned in butter and garlic!

Here is what I picked today

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What are you eating from your garden today? - Page 23 Image28

Lots of leaves! Black seeded Simpson, last spinach, and some kale.

CapeCoddess 5/28/2016, 7:24 pm

And scissors!
cheers

It's so funny how we all leave our scissors in the photos.
Mouthwatering, beautiful greens, SR!

CC

BeetlesPerSqFt 5/29/2016, 6:10 am

CapeCoddess wrote:And scissors!

It's so funny how we all leave our scissors in the photos.
Mouthwatering, beautiful greens, SR!

CC

It's for scale! And so I have photographic evidence of the last place I knew I had them. I misplaced BOTH pairs of scissors last year. Found one pair in the car over the winter thinking

, and the other pair just reappeared at some point.

johnp 5/29/2016, 9:20 am

For the first time ever I got to the baby bok choi before the flies. Had spicy chili garlic grilled baby bok choi. The secret is to cover the leaves with foil so he stems grill to done.

**Scorpio Rising** 5/29/2016, 11:54 am

BeetlesPerSqFt wrote:
CapeCoddess wrote:And scissors!

It's so funny how we all leave our scissors in the photos.
Mouthwatering, beautiful greens, SR!

CC

It's for scale! And so I have photographic evidence of the last place I knew I had them. I misplaced BOTH pairs of scissors last year. Found one pair in the car over the winter , and the other pair just reappeared at some point.

Thanks, CC!

Lol, yeah, those scissors are bolting right now! That is funny! For scale, that works, Beetles!

**sanderson** 5/29/2016, 4:10 pm

BeetlesPerSqFt wrote:http://www.eattheweeds.com/are-slugs-edible-what-about-snails-2/
There's a recipe for slug fritters....
(Sanderson, please don't ask me to move that to the recipe section! )

Mimi2 5/30/2016, 8:52 am

I am eating my fresh herbs on and in just about everything now. For instance, I make my own fresh herbes de province (a mix of thyme, savory, Marjoram, oregano, rosemary) on my fish, poultry, vegetables etc. And I make an herb pesto that we like with shrimp or chicken and pasta (with olive oil and sea salt). The spring onions have poked up an are being used already too. I nibbled on a couple o asparagus, but we're giving them a bit of a break 'til next year Very Happy

yolos 5/30/2016, 9:41 am

English shell peas mixed with sugar snap peas.

**Scorpio Rising** 5/30/2016, 9:15 pm

Spinach, kale, and chard !and some radishes!

**donnainzone5** 5/30/2016, 9:44 pm

Grilled asparagus (my first try), as well as steak with various seasonings, including home-grown rosemary.

**trolleydriver** 5/30/2016, 11:05 pm

Yippee! We harvested a couple of Basil leaves for our BLTs at lunchtime.

**sanderson** 5/31/2016, 2:27 am

Chard, onions, garlic, and more cucumbers. Burp. And, lemon basil and oregano on pork chops.

CapeCoddess 5/31/2016, 12:35 pm

sanderson wrote:Chard, onions, garlic, and more cucumbers. Burp. And, lemon basil and oregano on pork chops.

That's amazing. So what do you plant once it gets too hot? Or do the summer veggies keep going?

CC

**trolleydriver** 5/31/2016, 1:30 pm

I ate an Arugula seedling. bounce

**sanderson** 5/31/2016, 3:35 pm

TD

The first of anything is exciting!

CC, The garlic and onion were recently harvested. The chard is near the end. The fresh herbs are either perennial or this year's crop. I also harvest and dry herbs.

From now on, no more planting, except maybe replacement herbs as older ones bolt. Fresh summer-fall veggies will be herbs, tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, beans, cucumbers, melons. Then fall planting!

**trolleydriver** 5/31/2016, 3:47 pm

sanderson wrote:... The garlic and onion were recently harvested. The chard is near the end. The fresh herbs are either perennial or this year's crop. I also harvest and dry herbs.

Sanderson ... for comparison take a look at the photos of my chard, garlic, etc. that I will be posting shortly.

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