When I am away from my garden, it is the herbs I miss most. If I only had pots to garden in, the top dozen plants on the priority list would all be herbs. There are just so many recipes that depend on fresh herbs to move food from fuel to experience, and it is so difficult and expensive to buy fresh herbs. And dried herbs just don’t do it…
I picked the first broad beans of the season this morning, and I cannot remember why I ever thought broad beans boring. There was a time though, when I grew them just because they were so healthy and treated them as a filler.
Mullet are undervalued. My partner remembers seeing them buried on the beach by the thousands, bycatch regarded as too cheap to bother selling. Though those days are over they’re still regarded as sustainable, and really fresh mullet are one of my favourite eating fish. Fresh fillets are not too strong flavoured, and they’re super cheap and a really good source of Omega 3.
Plants know. Well, mostly they know. They do get it wrong, but a lot of years of evolution have gone into picking the change of season. Despite the cold snap we’ve been going through, this morning my garden reckons Spring has truly sprung here.
If you’ve been following the Breakfast Challenge series at all, you’ll know that “my current favourite” breakfast is usually only the current favourite for a few weeks. Partly that’s because what is best, in taste and in health and in cost, is always based on the fruits and nuts and grains and vegetables that are in season.
Leafy planting days today and tomorrow. The trick with leafies this time of year is to think about sex.
I actually like my oats better savory than sweet, and in a pressure cooker, steel cut oats will cook quickly enough to be a good option.