Monday Harvest – 3rd October 2011

It was wet in Melbourne this week, very wet!  We had thunder, lightning, downpours, drizzle, rain and hail – you name it, if it comes from the sky and falls to earth we had it (accept for snow, but then we never have snow…).  As a result much of my harvesting consisted of mad dashes out to the veggie patch to quickly grab something to go into a meal.  I did photograph a few things though.  Broccoli, Beetroot leaves, garlic shoots (that my delightful son ‘helpfully’ liberated from the ground for me….) and coriander went into a stir fry to have with salmon.

Beetroot to make more room for my cabbages to grow and to go into rasam.

Celery to flavour stock.

And more celery for risotto.

Some leeks also for the risotto – note: beautiful worm which went back into the ground rather than into our rice.

And mint, yes I know that this mint is still connected to the plant and so is not harvested but I used a lot of mint this week (mainly in tea), and failed to photograph it, so I felt it should be represented.

Broccolli – 2 types: Purple Sprouting and Green Dragon.  Both were used in a pasta dish (with olives, chilli, bread crumbs and anchovies) and if I’m honest I couldn’t really discern any difference in flavour between the two varieties.

And finally to represent all the parsley I ate – 2 images of pretty much the same thing.  Two armed man.

And one armed man.

Actually my parsley is going to seed so I used less of it than usual, just in stock and salads.

For other Monday Harvests head over to Daphne’s Dandelions, you know you want to!