It’s too early for summer! Jerks.
Posted by Lauren on 17 May 2008 at 08:22 pm | Tagged as: eating, farm updates
It was FREAKING HOT here today. I didn’t get around to unpacking the thermometer we bought today until about 6pm, at which point the thermometer still read 80°. Too hot for Laurens!
Every time we go to the farmers’ market, I come home with more starts. I think Garth is becoming frustrated with this, but they always look so healthy and happy and delicious! First it was the broccoli, then like twelve cauliflower (I didn’t realize there were 4 plants to a pot; I should have looked more closely), and today it was two containers of 10-15 leeks each, plus one container with four thriving little fava bean plants. I have only ever cooked fava beans once, when they came in our veggie box and my brother- and sister-in-law Cyrus and Anna were out to visit, and Anna taught me how to peel and cook (and peel again) them. So I am excited about those. It doesn’t sound like we’ll get a whole lot of beans from just a few plants, but all the same, post recipes if you’ve got ‘em.
We usually just steam them and eat with butter or saute them in olive oil with garlic. If the beans are still young and very fresh, because you are impatient and want to eat them now, then the inner peel is not bitter and not worth bothering to peel again.
lauren,
we were at the farmer’s market yesterday oogling tomato starts, black kirim from Russia, yellow pear, green/ yellow striped… I started to drool while conjuring up a scenario where my wife would agree that it was a good idea to buy a selection of tomato plants even though we are moving in two months. Any ideas? You are not alone in your starts addiction, maybe we should start a support group.
your husband’s brother’s brother in-law
Mr. Neville, I don’t know your name (or do I? J something?) but I am going to post a real post with some discussion of your options SOON! I aim to do it in time for you to buy starts at your next market day. :)