Vegetables.. yummy vegetables.. all different shapes and sizes and tastes and colours and times of growing and above ground and below ground.. WE LURVE and eat them all!
And today is no exception.. it is a norty horrid wet and dismal day 'out there', poor ole Mrs Spot Pigeon spent most of day on OUR doorstep sheltering out of the wind driven rain.
And SHE was in no mood to get dressed in survival kit and get blown about for the sake of a piece of meat.. a quick 'rootle' through vegetable rack produced a small, slightly pointed object with a 'verdigris' look to it, I gave it a push with ole Beaky.. it was hard and did not appear to mind falling on the floor.. I wondered what it was.
Then SHE produced two rather strange looking apples.. huge and all green!
Large pan from hanging rack, small amount of water, a knob of unsalted butter and a lot of black pepper.. I said 'black' because WE also use WHITE pepper quite often in YumYum HQ..
Chop chop went very sharp knife and out of 'verdigris', shape there emerged slices of the most glorious dark deep purply red shot through with white.. it was a RED Cabbage.. I have never seen one before!
Chop and core, but not peel went sharp knife on what I was told was a 'Bramley' cooking apple, out of fridge came a packet of Smoked Lardoons, into pan went about ten pieces.. on went gas, very low heat..
Next came home grown, only dug up last week, small potatoes.. when SHE was clearing one of the long beds last week, SHE dug
them up, no potatoes in that bed this year so they are from 2011 and they were absolutely fine.
Scrub-dub-dub with HER potato brush to get surface earth off, into
pan of salted water.. but WHAT WAS THIS?
For out of rack, SHE had pulled the most peculiar wizen object..
slightly soft and smelling like 'something' I recognise but I did not
know this weird thing.. SHE scrubbed with potato brush, chopped it
into quartered chunks and added it to potatoes.
Gas on, lids on, off SHE went, leaving ME in charge, as it were! SHE came back in ten minutes to stir Cabbage pot and poke a
potato.. gave ME a scritch on ole Beaky and went off again..
Strange, deliciously unusual smell coming from potato pot.. yum.. back SHE came, stirred and poked, drained the potatoes, quickly made a mayonaise and added a raw chopped onion, put potatoes into a bowl, up-ended sauce bowl on top of steming tatties, oooh. folks, it was nearly, nearly, more than MY good manners could stand.. YOU see, Dear Readers, I LURVE POTATOES..
Lid off Red Cabbage pot.. oh, YOU could jurst smell very faintest
smell of the smoked Bacon.. and it looked wonderful!
Plate out of cupboard, helping of Cabbage and Potatoes.. glass of
water.. I settled on work surface and SHE pushed a little of the two
vegetables towards ME.. saying "Here, try this?".
But what was 'it'.. it tasted scrummydumptious.. Have YOU any
idea what it was, Dear Readers? SHE will give YOU a clue..
leaves look not unlike Celery.. are YOU there yet?
It was Celeriac.. delicious, cooked or raw.. Oh.. please may WE
grow it again next year Mum? Yes, WE eat LOTS of vegetables in OUR home.. good thing that SHE likes to grow them, isn't it!
Off to doze and dream of Seed Catalogues.
GeeGee Parrot.
September 24th, 2012.
And today is no exception.. it is a norty horrid wet and dismal day 'out there', poor ole Mrs Spot Pigeon spent most of day on OUR doorstep sheltering out of the wind driven rain.
And SHE was in no mood to get dressed in survival kit and get blown about for the sake of a piece of meat.. a quick 'rootle' through vegetable rack produced a small, slightly pointed object with a 'verdigris' look to it, I gave it a push with ole Beaky.. it was hard and did not appear to mind falling on the floor.. I wondered what it was.
Then SHE produced two rather strange looking apples.. huge and all green!
Large pan from hanging rack, small amount of water, a knob of unsalted butter and a lot of black pepper.. I said 'black' because WE also use WHITE pepper quite often in YumYum HQ..
Chop chop went very sharp knife and out of 'verdigris', shape there emerged slices of the most glorious dark deep purply red shot through with white.. it was a RED Cabbage.. I have never seen one before!
Chop and core, but not peel went sharp knife on what I was told was a 'Bramley' cooking apple, out of fridge came a packet of Smoked Lardoons, into pan went about ten pieces.. on went gas, very low heat..
Next came home grown, only dug up last week, small potatoes.. when SHE was clearing one of the long beds last week, SHE dug
them up, no potatoes in that bed this year so they are from 2011 and they were absolutely fine.
Scrub-dub-dub with HER potato brush to get surface earth off, into
pan of salted water.. but WHAT WAS THIS?
For out of rack, SHE had pulled the most peculiar wizen object..
slightly soft and smelling like 'something' I recognise but I did not
know this weird thing.. SHE scrubbed with potato brush, chopped it
into quartered chunks and added it to potatoes.
Gas on, lids on, off SHE went, leaving ME in charge, as it were! SHE came back in ten minutes to stir Cabbage pot and poke a
potato.. gave ME a scritch on ole Beaky and went off again..
Strange, deliciously unusual smell coming from potato pot.. yum.. back SHE came, stirred and poked, drained the potatoes, quickly made a mayonaise and added a raw chopped onion, put potatoes into a bowl, up-ended sauce bowl on top of steming tatties, oooh. folks, it was nearly, nearly, more than MY good manners could stand.. YOU see, Dear Readers, I LURVE POTATOES..
Lid off Red Cabbage pot.. oh, YOU could jurst smell very faintest
smell of the smoked Bacon.. and it looked wonderful!
Plate out of cupboard, helping of Cabbage and Potatoes.. glass of
water.. I settled on work surface and SHE pushed a little of the two
vegetables towards ME.. saying "Here, try this?".
But what was 'it'.. it tasted scrummydumptious.. Have YOU any
idea what it was, Dear Readers? SHE will give YOU a clue..
leaves look not unlike Celery.. are YOU there yet?
It was Celeriac.. delicious, cooked or raw.. Oh.. please may WE
grow it again next year Mum? Yes, WE eat LOTS of vegetables in OUR home.. good thing that SHE likes to grow them, isn't it!
Off to doze and dream of Seed Catalogues.
GeeGee Parrot.
September 24th, 2012.
GeeGee, I haven't seen celeriac anywhere in the US. Tis strange. We have loads of celery, but no celeriac. In France it's almost impossible to find celery. There's loads of celeriac. So it goes... Well, I sure do have some cabbage that needs to be cooked. Maybe, I'll adapt HER ideas. And yes, Joanna needs to post, doesn't she?
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