QOTW: What are your favorite Springtime veggies?

[Guest guest]

QOTW for March 8th - 14th , 2008:

 

What are your favorite Springtime greens and

vegetables?

 

How do you prepare them? [share recipes]

 

Are there any greens you just don't like or haven't

found a way to prepare to your liking no matter how

you've tried?

[Guest guest]

> What are your favorite Springtime greens and

> vegetables?

 

artichokes, asparagus, baby spinach and lettuces

 

> How do you prepare them? [share recipes]

 

I steam or boil the artichokes and eat them leaf by

leaf with lemon-garlic-butter. I quickly boil the

asparagus until crisp-tender and season with butter,

fresh lemon juice, salt and pepper. I eat the spinach

and baby letuces in salads.

 

> Are there any greens you just don't like or haven't

> found a way to prepare to your liking no matter how

> you've tried?

 

There are several greens (sorrel, mustard, mache,

etc...) I haven't tried....if I run across some this

spring, I'll make an effort to try them

[Guest guest]

I really have a hard time with chicory but zi throw it in anyway. I love sewing

those firts varied lettuce seeds into a long window box on the porch and eating

them as they emerge. these plants like the coldish weather. Does anyone know

anything about fiddle heads? There was a place in maine for many years but,

alas, now it's gone. ,

" artichoke72x " <artichoke72x wrote:

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>

>

> > What are your favorite Springtime greens and

> > vegetables?

>

> artichokes, asparagus, baby spinach and lettuces

>

> > How do you prepare them? [share recipes]

>

> I steam or boil the artichokes and eat them leaf by

> leaf with lemon-garlic-butter. I quickly boil the

> asparagus until crisp-tender and season with butter,

> fresh lemon juice, salt and pepper. I eat the spinach

> and baby letuces in salads.

>

> > Are there any greens you just don't like or haven't

> > found a way to prepare to your liking no matter how

> > you've tried?

>

> There are several greens (sorrel, mustard, mache,

> etc...) I haven't tried....if I run across some this

> spring, I'll make an effort to try them

>

[Guest guest]

Have heard of fiddleheads, but haven't ever

found any to try. They sound wonderful though.

I have a recipe for a fiddleheads salad, but since

I could never find them around I use aparagus

to replace them.

Wondering if the flavor is at all close?

But but salad is yummy with asparagus so I don't

worry much.

 

~ PT ~

 

Oh that I and my choir of partners were in yon glen up

there, no witness beneath the white sun, save the bright

star and the planets; no simple infant with no sense,

no gabbling one there nor lying one to spread about the story.

~ Carmina Gadelica (trans, and ed. A. Carmichael)

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, " veggiescouts " <veggiescouts

wrote:

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> I really have a hard time with chicory but zi throw it in

anyway. I love sewing those firts varied lettuce seeds into

a long window box on the porch and eating them as they

emerge. these plants like the coldish weather.

Does anyone know anything about fiddle heads?

There was a place in maine for many years but, alas,

now it's gone.

[Guest guest]

 What are your favorite Springtime greens and

vegetables?

 

 

Spinach, and lettuce, and nearly everything but kale or is it collards? one of

them is too bitter, but like all the rest

 

_How do you prepare them?

I put spinach in all salads, and sandwiches, but still learning how......I love

cabbage, so do a really good cabbage casserole, that is realy good.

Are there any greens you just don't like or haven't

> found a way to prepare to your liking no matter how

> you've tried?

Greens, as in how they do it in the south with beans and cornbread....seems no

matter what I do they either come out soggy, bitter or both