It’s time for Harvest Monday, where gardeners from all over celebrate all things harvest related. I am surely ready for spring to arrive. We got a bit of snow early last week, and even more yesterday morning when a big rain storm turned to snow. Winter just doesn’t seem ready to go away! With bitter cold temps forecast for later this week, it will be a while before things thaw out here.
February snow
That said, I am getting a few harvests of lettuce of lettuce from the greenhouse. They are welcome additions to the menu for salads this time of year.
greenhouse lettuces
We made one salad last week with lettuce and other greens from the greenhouse. It was topped with nuts and some croutons made from my homemade bread, and a bit of fruit we didn’t grow.
salad with mixed greens
And I made a small cutting of curly kale from the greenhouse to go in soup. The Winterbor and Starbor kales are holding up well so far, with Winterbor doing a bit better.
curly kale
We also used some of our purple sweet potatoes from storage to make hash. Cut into cubes and tossed with a little olive oil, I roasted these in a cast iron skillet until they were crispy on the outside but still soft on the inside. This is one of my favorite treatments for the dry fleshed sweet potatoes like the Purple variety.
purple sweet potato hash
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!
It’s wonderful that you can still get harvests during snowfall with the help of the greenhouse. How do you store your sweet potatoes to last? I thought “hash” for sweet potato hash would need to be grated?
We have a pantry area in our basement that stays just cool enough to store the sweet potatoes, but not too cool. We usually refer to cubed potatoes as hash, and grated ones as ‘hash browns’. The sweet potatoes are also tasty when grated and cooked until crispy.
I shared a link for my post. What a great idea (Harvest Mondays)! I made a batch of my own garden fresh purple hull pinkeye peas (from my freezer) yesterday for supper and your post inspired me to write about it on my own blog. Spring cannot get here soon enough! 🙂 Thanks for inspiring me today. (I just added a note at the bottom of my post that I shared my post on your blog – just remembered to do that ;). Thank you!
Happy to see you join in! It’s all about past and present harvest here, so link in when you like.