Harvest Monday - May 21, 2018

It's a quick and easy harvest post for me this week. I only took 1 photo of three heads of Queen of Crunch crisphead lettuce.

Queen of Crunch Crisphead Lettuce

The heads averaged one pound each. I served them as finger food, presenting the separated leaves naked with a caesar dressing on the side along with grated Parmesan cheese and mild fermented mixed Habanada and Aji Amarillo pepper flakes. It was fun to munch each individual leaf drizzled with a bit a dressing and a sprinkling of cheese and pepper flakes.

The only other harvests last week were and couple pounds of fava beans and the Golden Sweet snow peas that I gathered as I cut the pea vines down. The vines were quickly being overwhelmed by powdery mildew and the rodents were climbing the trellis that the peas shared with the fava beans and they were defoliating the fava plants that were protected behind the pea vines. So bye bye peas. Those harvests escaped the camera.

I had a break from cooking duties for much of the week because we were away for a long weekend enjoying the delights to be found in and around Tomales Bay and the Point Reyes National Seashore. We feasted on oysters and petted baby water buffaloes and sampled fresh buffalo mozzarella along with other tasty delights. Thank goodness we also enjoyed some refreshing hikes in the park to work off all the goodies.

Harvest Monday is hosted by Dave on his blog Our Happy Acres, head on over there to see what other garden bloggers have been harvesting lately.