the garden is now churning out a steady supply of greens (including 4 types of lettuce, crown daisy, kale and herbs) and it's just about more salad than frederik and i can handle. we've already started gifting bags of it.
anyway, i know that I'M enjoying the heck out of pounding a humongous bowl of salad every day, tossed up w/ fresh dressings laced with plenty of garlic, ginger, lemon thyme, dijon mustard, dill, basil, balsamic vinegar, etc, etc. oh yeah!
also, our baby spinach seeds had become full grown plants in 5 weeks, so we harvested it all last weekend. the little spinach patch made a brimming sink-load full! we decided, since we are already up to our ears in greens, it would be best to freeze the spinach for later use (read spinach dip and spinach-ricotta gnocchi).
however, after the tedious process of rinsing, de-stemming and then blanching, the final product to enter the freezer was pretty meager .... but oh so precious. green gold! :)
the garden is now churning out a steady supply of greens (including 4 types of lettuce, crown daisy, kale and herbs) and it's just about more salad than frederik and i can handle. we've already started gifting bags of it.
anyway, i know that I'M enjoying the heck out of pounding a humongous bowl of salad every day, tossed up w/ fresh dressings laced with plenty of garlic, ginger, lemon thyme, dijon mustard, dill, basil, balsamic vinegar, etc, etc. oh yeah!
also, our baby spinach seeds had become full grown plants in 5 weeks, so we harvested it all last weekend. the little spinach patch made a brimming sink-load full! we decided, since we are already up to our ears in greens, it would be best to freeze the spinach for later use (read spinach dip and spinach-ricotta gnocchi). 
however, after the tedious process of rinsing, de-stemming and then blanching, the final product to enter the freezer was pretty meager .... but oh so precious. green gold! :)
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