vegster
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- May 5, 2008
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Not sure what to do with Samphire to cook it. Had a holiday last year in Norfolk and they were selling it for £3 a bunch when you could pick it yourself for free 200 yds away
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Overlooked vegetables
- Thread starter Herr Tubthumper
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Not sure what to do with Samphire to cook it. Had a holiday last year in Norfolk and they were selling it for £3 a bunch when you could pick it yourself for free 200 yds away
wsupp
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Please don't stop
DarrenFreemansPerm
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I am up for everything so far except the spaghetti squash that I may continue to overlook.
How about cima di rapa? It is Italian for turnip top and easy to grow here. It is fast maturing and when the plant flowers you get a greeny, yellow head similar to broccoli. It makes a wonderful pasta dish using orecchiette (little ears) as the pasta and adding garlic, olive oil and parmesan. Its a Puglian dish from Southern Italy and easy to replicate here with allotment vegetabes.
So get growing and prepare your little ears pasta with turnip heads. It only takes 40 days to maturs from seed.
How about cima di rapa? It is Italian for turnip top and easy to grow here. It is fast maturing and when the plant flowers you get a greeny, yellow head similar to broccoli. It makes a wonderful pasta dish using orecchiette (little ears) as the pasta and adding garlic, olive oil and parmesan. Its a Puglian dish from Southern Italy and easy to replicate here with allotment vegetabes.
So get growing and prepare your little ears pasta with turnip heads. It only takes 40 days to maturs from seed.
brakespear
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grubbyhands
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I've never overlooked a vegetable but I did once spy on a pomegranate.
1066familyman
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- Jan 15, 2008
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Late crops this year so only just got our first pickings of Autumn sown broad beans off the allotment tonight. Aside from fresh sweetcorn, this has to be my favourite veg, whether raw or lightly steamed and smeared with marg and black pepper. It's certainly the one I look forward to most.
But for overlooked I'd go for Kohlrabi too. I've only ever grown it, not really seen it sold and it's lovely grated raw in a salad. Strange how it doesn't seem to be that well known or liked.
Like others here, I love beetroot too, but not into spoiling it's great flavour by pickling it. Love to eat it boiled or chopped up into thin slices, brushed with olive oil and then roasted to make beetroot crisps. The kids love 'em!
For best value grown I'd go for perpetual spinach. Isn't cheap to buy in the shop and we get bagfuls of the stuff off the plot for most of the year and it's especially good as soup to go with eba or pounded yam.
But for overlooked I'd go for Kohlrabi too. I've only ever grown it, not really seen it sold and it's lovely grated raw in a salad. Strange how it doesn't seem to be that well known or liked.
Like others here, I love beetroot too, but not into spoiling it's great flavour by pickling it. Love to eat it boiled or chopped up into thin slices, brushed with olive oil and then roasted to make beetroot crisps. The kids love 'em!
For best value grown I'd go for perpetual spinach. Isn't cheap to buy in the shop and we get bagfuls of the stuff off the plot for most of the year and it's especially good as soup to go with eba or pounded yam.
Cheshire Cat
The most curious thing..
Swede (but not the appalling version they served for school dinners though)
More beetroot.
And sprouts.
More beetroot.
And sprouts.
The Large One
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The Large One
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Muzzy on here has been kind enough to give us some seedlings for the Community Garden. Looking forward to seeing how they come out.
GoingUp
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The Large One
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Or boil for about three, drain and then sautée for 30 seconds with olive oil, pepper and a small knob (wahey) of butter. Agree totally with the serving suggestion. Fish at the far (Lagoon) end of Shoreham harbour sell it in summer if you can't be arsed to find your own.
Butternut squash roasted with thyme & olive oil on 180 for about 40 mins is superb with lamb and braised leaks great with pork belly.
Romanescu cauliflower roasted with garlic is also a regular with us.
Sadly the kids won't touch any of the above hence a freezer full of frozen peas.
Asparagus is highly overrated and makes your piss stink.
The Large One
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So does the fishmonger next door to the fishing museum on Brighton beach.
Actually, so does Morrison's. And the greengrocer on Fiveways.
Asparagus isn't the problem; it's making sure your Hollandaise sauce is right.
Excellent. I live in West West Hove* So Fish is the nearest and the cheapest. The one time Sainos had it they were charging something ridiculous. Might as well have had a sign that said "stupidly expensive because Nigel Slater mentioned it and you're never going to forage"
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If your sauce doesn't split your piss smells normal?
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Don't recall an asparagus scented waterfall in our latrine; just the usual battery acid-laced cottaging stench.
BrickTamland
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Raw sweet corn straight of the cob. Can't be beaten.