Friday, June 06, 2008
I was given this amazing leaf lettuce today along with some stunning onions from a local home garden. I just finished eating a salad made with both.
This sort of lettuce is most often prepared lightly wilted in a bit of bacon fat here--but I've never become accustomed to the idea of cooking lettuce. I've done some nice wilted spinach salads but lettuce--not so much.
I love when the fresh produce starts coming in. We are enjoying the Florida cantaloupes already. I had one that rivaled South Carolina cantaloupes(if you've had these, you know what I mean) I purchased at the Morristown Farmer's Market this past Monday.
I also purchased one of the best pink Brandywine tomatoes I've ever had there. A few chayotes and some amazing Peaches & Cream corn. I got a hugeous red papaya--and I confess to eating the entire thing when I got home.
When I was growing up in Bluffton, SC, a local family kept a large open air fruit stand on 278. There were amazing roadside fruit and vegetable stands in that area then and my mother was well acquainted with them all. When I was a teenager, my friend, Elizabeth, and I would cruise by there and get bags of fresh cherries. Elizabeth was the most beautiful girl of all the summer girls--blond and busty, she made traffic stop from the time she was eleven. Precocious she was. I never could get the hang of tying that stem in a knot with my tongue. Oh--I could do it--I just looked like a dog with a peanut butter cracker stuck to the roof of its mouth.
I'd love to hear about any special produce that impressed you this season. How is your garden coming along? What did you plant?
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I don't grow veggies myself but I have some beautiful lilacs, maples, roses and poppies. I am trying to grow two kinds of mint and some rosemary. ( I don't have time to tend anything daily...)
Eden
I had some arugula that came in nicely, since it likes the cold. That's long gone, though!
Margy
Fresh local produce has not reached us. Soon we will be able to pick strawberries and make a little jam and other goodies like strawberry shortcake.
We have to settle for picking some wild greens.
Let's see, in addition to the beets & chard & the weeds both edible & inedible - Tomatoes, heirlooms from our club's professional chef, plus volunteer cherry tomatoes from last year; peppers; sugar snap peas; green onions (including one volunteer from last year that's gonna be the size of a leek if it keeps going at the rate it has been); cucumbers, a variety of herbs. I keep saying I have to get parsley 'cause I've got sage, rosemary & thyme. And basil, can't wait 'til I have enough for pesto again!
And flowers!
Everything's been growing like mad, although this heat wave may be rough on the peas.
Didn't make it out to the club at all this week - we had enough rain that I didn't need to, which was good 'cause I was chained to my desk all week. Can't wait to see it tomorrow. A week is long enough for visible change!
No squashes. That was too tragic with the squash borers last year.