Apparently it took Tozer, the UK seed company, fifteen years of cross breeding Brussel sprouts and Kale before these delicious things were born and.. we love them.
The first time she saw them was at Marylebone's Farmer's Market, she had gone to meet Debbie, of Ellie's Dairy fame, to eat Selina's marvelous chilli Malaysian dumplings.
She prowled about the market whilst Selina cooked their dumplings and found these miniature beauties on a stall behind Debbie and said to the stall holder "These are pretty, I've never seen a vegetable like this before, it looks like a mix of a sprout and a kale".
He laughed and said "you're spot on, they're Flower Sprouts, Tozer Seeds developed them here in England about six years ago (2010), they're delicious, try one", she wiped one on her jeans for a bit of earth never hurt anyone and ate it. Yum. Crunchy and delicious.
Now you can get them pretty much everywhere, in the USA they are called Kalettes.
We don't care what you call them.. they're truly scrummydumptious! Either dropped into boiling salted water or steamed for only a few minutes and they're highly nutritious.
You can now find them in most supermarkets and certainly at good Farmer's Markets, but don't loll about for these edible treasures sell fast!
She's still only drinking hot fluids which is a bit boring, I'm having to make do with nuts and parrot food, I do have slurps of LapySang but a hot dish of some human food would have been good. Ah well, such is life.
It's nearly 6.00pm, time to switch the news to see what the world has been up to today!
Tomorrow is Saturday, our weather forecast is a bit grim with rain and frost.. brrr. We know, you don't have to tell us, it's still Winter.
GeeGee Parrot.
February 9th, 2018.
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