Harvest Monday – 12th Sept 2011

I’ve eaten quite a lot of silverbeet this week.  The plants are bolting so the larger leaves have gone all floppy and needed eating.

I’m getting decent amounts of purple sprouting broccoli at the moment which is nice, the only issue is; beating the rats to it as they are also nibbling away at the stalks.  I also harvested the last of this (admittedly very long) season’s capsicums.  The plants are still alive but don’t seem to be growing – not sure if they live to fruit another season.

Lunch today was corn fritters – I used the above capsicum and this coriander & parsley in them.  The corn was from the freezer.

I want to pot up my scotch bonnet chilli plants so to encourage new growth I removed the last of last seasons chillies.  Because they ripened over winter they have very little heat.

Coriander & Curry Leaves for rasam, the rest for vegetable stock.

I made Salsa Verde to go with some lovely fresh Rockling so that meant Chervil, Dill, Parsley & Coriander.

Its been cold for the last few days but Spring is about to arrive this weekend with forecasts in the mid 20’s.  Perhaps it will bring with it some hearts for my final winter vegetables – my cabbages which seem very slow this year….or do I think that every year…..

For other fabulous harvests visit Daphne’s Dandelions.