On to the harvests for last week. They weren't a lot but they were good. The short cold days keep things growing slowly so I don't have to rush to harvest the broccoli before it bursts into bloom. The main head of the third and largest Di Ciccio broccoli plant could have been harvested earlier but it was still excellent. I used this head to make another big fritatta for Dave which also included dried Tromba D'Albenga squash and dried cherry tomatoes, among other ingredients. Dave likes his fritattas to be packed with veggies.
Di Ciccio broccoli |
Batavia broccoli |
Gladiator parsnips |
Golden Sweet snow peas |
I'll mention another delicious dish I made last week that featured a number of ingredients from my stores. The Autumn Lamb Stew with Squash, Lemon, and Mint from Paula Wolfert's book The Cooking of the Eastern Mediterranean was incredibly flavorful. It featured a number of things from the garden including Honey Nut butternut squash, onions, garlic, canned tomatoes (instead of fresh), tomato paste, pepper paste, pepper flakes, lemons, and mint. There were items not from the garden also - the lamb came from a local sheep milk cheese producer and the chickpeas were Italian (I haven't used the homegrown ones yet). I was surprised by how much flavor the dish had and I think a lot of it came from the concentrated tomato and pepper pastes, the tang of the lemon juice balanced the richness of the lamb and the sweetness of the squash. I'll be making this dish again.
Here's the details of the harvests last week:
Batavia broccoli - 1 lb., 1.4 oz.
Di Ciccio broccoli - 9.7 oz.
Gladiator parsnips - 12 oz.
Golden Sweet snow peas - 2.8 oz.
Total harvests for the week - 2 lb., 9.9 oz. (1.2 kg.)
2015 YTD - 1226 lb., .7 oz. (556.1 kg.)
Harvest Monday is hosted by Dave on his blog Our Happy Acres, head on over there to be inspired by what other garden bloggers have been harvesting and cooking up lately.
Some lovely harvests you had this week. I definitely loved the side shoots from my broccoli better than the small main heads - they were so abundant and, near the end, each harvest was a surprise. I didn't realize you had a lemon tree - lucky you!
ReplyDeleteI've got a Meyer lemon tree that grows like a weed and produces so many lemons that I can't use them all. And I've also got a variegated pink fleshed lemon growing in a pot - that's a more modest tree. So yes, a couple of lemon trees!
DeleteThose Parsnips look an awful lot better than mine! Oh, and your De Ciccio broccoli is too...
ReplyDeleteThose side shoots are big - as big as some of my smallest main heads! That lamb stew sounds deelish. I am the only lamb fan here so I don't cook it often. It's also hard to find local lamb, and I find much of what is shipped in doesn't have a lot of flavor. Most of the sheep here are grown on for mutton, which is a popular BBQ meat.
ReplyDeleteMutton, how interesting! I don't think I've ever seen it served or for sale around here. And I can't recall if I've ever tasted it. The Batavia broccoli, which is new for me this year, has produced the biggest side shoots of any variety of broccoli that I've ever grown and it's good tasting too - it's a winner.
ReplyDeleteWow... fresh broccoli! No harvest from my broccoli patch this year, the caterpillar attack was a night mare.
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