Okay, this is basically a note to say THANK YOU. I took Feast on Your Life out of my local Toronto library (and I loved it so much I am going to have to buy it) which led me to your back catalogue with its poetic and practical suggestions for leftovers and the less-than-perfect and I (a decent and happy home cook, now that my sons are grown and eat more than plain pasta etc) currently have little jars full of formerly-limp and pallid fridge herbs given a glow-up with garlic and lemon and olive oil and gosh, don’t they all make good toppers for soup in this endless winter we are having here?
Baby kale is soooo easy… I bought a few plugs from the nursery and stuck them in leftover nooks in my strawberry planter. (You could also move them to the 4-inch pots that any other flowers you buy at the nursery come in.) This way they don’t grow very big, even if you don’t harvest them continuously as they grow. Harvest from the bottom leaves up, always leaving 2-3 leaves at the top. Mine lasted June-January (and I think that was only because some bugs or squirrels finally ate the top of the center stalk).
At last, a solution to stale paper towels. Thank you so much!
Okay, this is basically a note to say THANK YOU. I took Feast on Your Life out of my local Toronto library (and I loved it so much I am going to have to buy it) which led me to your back catalogue with its poetic and practical suggestions for leftovers and the less-than-perfect and I (a decent and happy home cook, now that my sons are grown and eat more than plain pasta etc) currently have little jars full of formerly-limp and pallid fridge herbs given a glow-up with garlic and lemon and olive oil and gosh, don’t they all make good toppers for soup in this endless winter we are having here?
They do they do!!!
I would suggest a countertop hydroponic garden as a consistent source of fresh baby greens with zero waste.
This is genius. It didn't occur to me at all, but it does seem like it would solve the problem handily.
I can turn off the Internet for today, Tamar called me a genius!
Baby kale is soooo easy… I bought a few plugs from the nursery and stuck them in leftover nooks in my strawberry planter. (You could also move them to the 4-inch pots that any other flowers you buy at the nursery come in.) This way they don’t grow very big, even if you don’t harvest them continuously as they grow. Harvest from the bottom leaves up, always leaving 2-3 leaves at the top. Mine lasted June-January (and I think that was only because some bugs or squirrels finally ate the top of the center stalk).