Ahhhh the excitement of a new crop and this week its Broad Beans!
We had pasta with bacon, broad beans, pine nuts and lemon. Here they are again from another angle (I actually think I should have waited a few more days before harvesting as some were fairly small – having said that all were absolutely delicious!).
The rest of this basket went into a salad: radish, lettuce, celery, mixed leaves and parsley. In fact this seems to have been the week of lettuce, or rather I seem to have photographed more of the lettuce I harvested this week.
As I posted earlier in the week I made vegetable stock with the parsley, thyme, bay & green garlic from the picture below left and the selection in the one on the right went into a lovely vegetarian Harira soup. Harira is Morrocan, typically made with lamb and is often eaten with dates to break the fast during Ramadan. It is a lentil and tomato soup with spices, chickpeas and broken up bits of vermicelli pasta through it.
This week also saw the end of our carrots for the moment as I have run out of space to sow more. I think you can guess what happened to most of them…..
Other than that pictured above I also harvested a fair bit of celery to fill with cheese and gobble. This stick is looking fairly relaxed about its intended fate though….
For other harvests from around the globe connect with Daphne’s Dandelions today.
I wish I can swap with your full lovely harvest basket. I never tried growing broad beans yet because once upon a time I did not like it. But somehow, if possible I would like to try fresh home grown broad bean. I might change my opinion about it;-). You celery looks good. We are unlucky with celery this year, most of them too stringy. We don’t have much rain this year in winter.
Like everything I think broad beans are best fresh and I do think it depends what you cook them with. I double peel mine, although I have vary occasionally had lovely dishes made with single peeled ones. Aside from the bacon (which I suspect you may not be interested in) I think they go well with feta and mint.
Beautiful harvest basket of broad beans and lettuces! I may have to find a spot to grow some fava beans this spring.
I did enjoy eating them as well…..
What a delicious and healthy looking basket. Will be months before I see garden fresh lettuce. Your growing season seems to be the opposite of ours.
Its interesting – because we have comparatively mild winters there are some things we grow over winter that you grow in summer but mainly the growing seasons are a mirror image.
Perhaps that stalk has a longing for some cream cheese or peanut butter spread on it!
A masochist you think? And funnily enough it did get the cream cheese treatment.
Happy harvesting!! I’ve never grown broad beans! They look delicious! I may have to add them to my list for next year 🙂
They are great and they do have the advantage of fixing lots of lovely nitrogen into the soil.
I’ve never tried growing stem celery before but yours looks nice. Mostly I rely on lovage as my use of celery is restricted to stock. Speaking of soup stock, that recipe sounds delicious. Our kids eat a good deal of the carrots too – right out of the ground with dirt. I’ve encouraged them to at least dust them off…
I’ve never tried lovage, it sounds interesting. I think dirt must contain some nutrient essential to small children as they do seem attracted to it don’t they….
Are you sure about the Harira? It looks like Mock Turtle to me! 🙂
He, he, he, he. I really need to work out how to do that little smiling face thing – I have a big smile on mine at the moment.
Really beautiful pictures of a beautiful harvest!
Take care,
Charlotta in Sweden
Thanks Charlotta
Those beans look scrumptious! I’ve never grown broad beans and I might have to add them to my spring list. I’ve discovered that’s a downside of seeing everyone’s harvests- I want to grow everything!!
I know what you mean i’m the same, and I’ve just run out of space…again…
Beautiful harvest basket and nice lettuces. My lettuce never made it to photo op, it’s always cut and eat.
I know what you mean, I usually remember too late that I really should photograph it. But this week I managed a couple of shots
Those fat green broad beans looks yummy!
And yummy they were – we had some more for dinner tonight.
Little hands in the garden basket…that doesn’t happen around here! Ha ha! Little thieves they are!
Its terrible isn’t it – i blame the parents…..he he he.
Beautiful harvest. I grew broad beans for the first time last spring and loved them. I need more next year.
I know how you feel – I would like to have more of pretty much everything I grow….