Welcome to another Harvest Monday (sponsored by Daphne's Dandelions) where I show what I've been harvesting lately.
With this batch of garlic scapes, I made garlic scape soup. It was pretty much just garlic scapes, onion, potato, spinach, veggie stock and evaporated milk (plus the usual seasoning). It was OK, but a bit bland. I took care of that pretty quick with a drizzle of truffle oil. Sooooo good!!
This batch below (buttercrunch, arugula, bit of kale) went into the salad above which was for a friends' party (served with a raspberry vinaigrette which was delicious ... I'll post the recipe when I have a chance). Alas, the strawberries in the salad were purchased from a local farm (but more on my misery of a strawberry patch another time).
I'm having a hard time making it back to the house with any sugar snap peas as they are eaten too quickly. But I managed to bring this little bit in:
And some herbs ... I have tons of herbs and just use them as needed. Some of the basil here went into the same salad above. But really the tops just needed to be picked so as to avoid flowering ... I just gave the rest away as I didn't have time to do anything myself. And the teeny bit of cilantro was just thrown into something I was eating at the time ...
And I just got back in from picking this batch of rainbow swiss chard, mixed beet greens, a small amount of spinach and chives that I'll be cooking with tonight. Plus another small handful of peas that won't last 10 minutes.
Check out what everyone else is harvesting this time of year at Daphne's Dandelions.
Boy - everyone seems to have peas...mine have just flowered and there are only a couple of actual pea pods developing so far. I guess it will make them that much sweeter when I do finally harvest some. Those beet greens & chard also look great.
ReplyDeleteI planted my peas in mid-April in a raised garden bed ... you are in Southern Ontario, I'm in Northern Ontario (just south of Ottawa) so I wonder if your weather hasn't been as good or just timing??
DeleteYou know what? Your are totally right - I was supposed to sow my peas around the 2nd week of April and because it was so crazy busy adding the extra beds, I didn't get around to it until the first week of May. Now I don't feel so bad!
DeleteMore garlic scapes! Everyone has scapes. I really feel like I'm missing out on something. Actually, I'm just happy that my garlic didn't wither away from a rust infection before it could produce bulbs, but scapes would be a nice bonus. Your salad looks delicious, is that goat cheese in it?
ReplyDeleteIt's feta, but I use goat cheese a lot too. Mmm, I love cheese and nuts in salad!
DeleteThat soup is a good idea. I have a few scapes that I was wondering what to do with...
ReplyDeletePeas are so good aren't they. I love just eating them out of hand too. Yum.
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