Harvest Monday February 12, 2024

It’s time once again for Harvest Monday, where we celebrate all things harvest related.  Lettuce is coming back and growing in the greenhouse, and I managed to cut a couple of heads of the Salanova Red Butter. It is time to start more seeds for the spring crop, something I need to add to my to-do list! I started seeds for parsley and eggplant last week, and the eggplant is already coming up. I also need to sow some seeds for greens like mizuna, baby kale and arugula.

Salanova Red Butter lettuce

I made a big cutting of collard greens before the big freeze came a few weeks ago. They weighed right at two pounds, and I froze a few for later and saved the rest for fresh use. The collard plants are putting on new growth too, though a few plants likely didn’t survive the recent bitter cold weather. It looks like quite a few did make it though, and a spring flush of leaves will be welcome in the kitchen.

assorted collards

We still have lots of sweet potatoes in storage, and I cooked up a batch of Rosemary Roasted Sweet Potatoes last week to go with a fish dinner. It is one of my favorites ways to cook them, and I used a mix of orange Beauregard and white Bonita for this batch. Both varieties are moist and sweet, and work well together for sure.

Rosemary Roasted Sweet Potatoes

My latest sourdough bake used 1/3 heirloom French Rouge de Bordeaux flour, and it made a tasty and sturdy base for our tuna melt sandwiches and croutons for soups and salads. I baked it in our Breadtopia clay baker, which always makes for a crispy crust. The Rouge de Bordeaux flour has a lovely flavor, and it is one of my favorite wheat varieties for bread baking.

Rouge de Bordeaux sourdough bread

Harvest Monday is a day to show off your harvests, how you are saving your harvest, or how you are using your harvest. If you have a harvest you want to share, add your name and blog link to Mr Linky below. And please check out what everyone is harvesting!