Harvest Monday – 31st Oct 2011

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….

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