It’s time once again for Harvest Monday, where we celebrate all things harvest related. It’s salad season here, and lettuce continues to play a big role in many of our meals lately. I cut a couple of smaller heads of Hyper Red Rumple Waved last week, along with a big head of the green leafed Starfighter. We used the Starfighter in a wilted lettuce salad, which is one of my favorite treatments.
Hyper Red Rumple Waved lettuce
Starfighter lettuce
wilted lettuce salad
It’s also asparagus season, and we have been enjoying it in a variety of dishes. The daily harvests are usually just a few spears, but it adds up. We have gotten over a pound a week for the last three weeks, which is plenty to keep my wife and I supplied.
daily haul of asparagus
I also harvested some baby leaf greens and onions from the greenhouse plantings last week. The baby greens (pac choi and mizuna) went into a soup we had on one of the rainy and chilly days we had after the warm sunny day of the eclipse.
spring onion and baby greens
Last fall I planted about three dozen of the Forum onion sets in the main vegetable garden, and last week I pulled some of them as spring onions. I had set them out fairly close together, and this served as a thinning out to let a few of them grow on to get a bit bigger. This batch will keep us well supplied for a while, and both the tops and bottoms are quite useful in the kitchen.
Forum onions
In other news, for dinner one night I sautéed more of the collards and rapini and used our sweet potatoes from storage to make hash. The veggies went well with some grilled fish, and the sweet potatoes were still sweet and flavorful after being in storage for almost six months.
fish with collards and sweet potato hash
I mentioned last time that we had some out of town guests coming in to watch the total solar eclipse last Monday. I made veggie soup and baked some bread for the event, while my wife baked cookies and made an apple salad. We had perfect weather and mostly clear skies, and I believe the event was a great success for us. Three of our guests are artists and belong to SAQA (Studio Art Quilt Associates) as does my wife. I got out my Canon DSLR and shot lots of images during the eclipse, and to close out I’ll share three of my favorites. They were taken just before totality, at totality, and just after. I also added a shot my wife got of what it looked like outside when everything got dark, and the sky had a rosy glow much like it does at sunrise and sunset.
just before totality
at totality
just after totality
darkness at totality
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!
Great spring harvests, and very cool eclipse photos! We were just outside the path of totality, so all that was left of the sun at peak was a sliver. Still pretty nice to experience. We could have driven a few hours north to get totality, but seeing how extensive the traffic jams were, I’m glad we didn’t.
We didn’t experience this eclipse but I remember previous ones being rather eerie as the birds suddenly stopped singing
Great eclipse photos and quite a treat to enjoy it from your own garden! We love salad onions too Dave, Deb and I get through a bunch like that every day and a few more than that once we run out of stored onions in about a month. Great to watch your harvests building now and soon you will be racing ahead of me.