Spring salad bouquet
March 22, 2007
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After 6 months of neglect and a rather substantial flood, I really didn’t expect to find much in the Occitanian kitchen garden. But in fact, we will have trouble eating our way through the sheer amount of over the top, beautifully bolted brassicas, flowering mizuna and rucola, brussels sprouts and even bright lights chard.
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On the first day of Spring I gather a salad for the lunch consisting of violet cauliflower flowers, yellow broccoli flowers, dandelions, mizuna and rucola flowers with their residual greens and a scattering of bergamot and mint leaves.
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Maybe it was because of the arrangement, but Wayne really thought it was a bouquet!
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Salad bouquet
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As seen from the lower garden, productive allotment, even in my absence
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Rucola flowers
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A collection of brassicas. The black kale is stunning, sweet and has just the right texture.
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Sorrel coming up all by itself
debra at 12:18 | | post to del.icio.us
Your garden pickings are beautiful and I am jealous! I’m amazed at all that broccoli.
Comment by Anna — April 1, 2007 @ 17:34
This is the loveliest, most interesting and genuingly tip top Food blog I have come across. EVER (meaning up to 24th Jan 2008 of course). Such good fresh writing. I know when I go home tonight that all the furniture will look like it has been moved 5 inches even although it hasn’t. It’s that inspirational.
Well done. Honestly. I shower you in biscuits shaped like compliments.
Thanks from Lord Alcohol
Comment by Lord Alcohol — January 24, 2008 @ 7:56
Dear Lord,
Thank you for your bountiful biscuits.
The pleasure is mine. Must get back down to the Occitanian Kitchen garden soon.
Warm regards,
Debra
Comment by debra — January 25, 2008 @ 19:54