bridging the seasons
World events can make you feel helpless. The internets can be...unhelpful. Thankfully, there is finally opportunity to get outside and take a break from things out of my control. Temps are nearing 50 degrees, cranes and robins are back in large numbers, and I found the first crocus today!Also excited this past week to be able to both plant and harvest again. I found a few overwintered carrots in the low tunnel last week--I had left a few to see how they would do. And the greens that survived are finally starting to take off.
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| bordeaux spinach |
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| winter lettuce mix - soon to be spring mix |
So last night's dinner featured a combo of ingredients from this season and the past: backyard eggs, freshly picked spinach and scallions, mixed with a ton of last summer's veggies: frozen broccoli and peppers, plus garlic scape pesto and dried tomatoes. Combined with some WI cheddar and butter, local milk and flour, and some farmers market bacon, we had a quiche worthy of a photograph:
Today I planted out my sets of kale and lettuce, plus a few bunching onions. Eggplants and peppers are sprouting indoors under lights. Tomatoes get seeded later this week. Thank goodness for seasons, there is always something to look forward to.
Ah! Now that is heartening. I ought to get some arugula and lettuce planted in our sunny front cold frame.
ReplyDeleteQuiche looks delicious!
Brett