Me: "Grumm grumm grumm" stuffing as many just picked sugar snap peas into my mouth as possible.
See that's me- always helpful, just trying to get the plant to produce.
My sister-in-law has this idea of the year of the ______ new food. Which is a year she first learned to love a food she had never liked before or had never had before. For example, she has the year of the mango and the year of the pomegranate.
For me, I think this is the year of the kale. I had never had it before 2010 and hot damn- its amazing. We make massaged kale salad. Something sounds wrong about that, but we cut up raw kale into thin strips, throw in some oil, and massage it up. This keeps in the nutrients but breaks up some of the hard texture. Then we add in vinegar, agave, and mustard. I like to throw some sesame seeds in too. Grum grum grum. Whole foods has some new asinine food rating system that I haven't taken the time to understand, but on their number system, kale is the wunderkid of food. I can believe that. Sesame seeds are on the list too. What's not to like? If only this system would add in an allowance for chocolate - we'd all be alright.
What will be your food of 2010?
Our peas produce tons of pods which never make it into the house due to the kids constantly eating the pods off the vine, which in turn makes more, and so on.....
ReplyDeleteWe are trying blue podded peas this year from baker's creek. They have the prettiest purple flowers. I can't wait to see the pods!
I've never grown kale. Does it taste like cabbage?
Josie, your kale recipe sounds really tasty. I'm wondering if it would get my kale-hating hubby to eat it. My food for 2010 will be small yellow tomatoes - can I get them to ripen before the deer or squirrels get them? I like to think that chocolate (dark chocolate or cocoa) is a condiment, therefore allowable in small quantities!
ReplyDeleteMy food will be black currants! I planted one single thing last year and that was a black currant bush. It's the only kind of fruit deer won't eat and this is important because up on the east coast deer carry deer ticks. Gross.
ReplyDeleteI will make a tiny dollop of jam because it is just a tiny bush. I hope I can still call this my Currant Year anyway, please say yes.
YAY ellie-I have never had black currants. I think you should fly that dollop to San Antonio and we can each have a bite.
ReplyDeleteLynne- We havent grown our own yellow tomatoes yet but I do love them from the farmer's market.
Suzanne- We had a discuss at dinner about what kale tastes like. Its basically a hardy lettuce. Sort of the texture of collards but a different taste. We dress it the same way we dress cabbage for coleslaw though. You should try it! Ps Those peas are awesome.