Sunday, December 30, 2012

Xmas dinner from the garden

We ate many things from our garden on Christmas day. The menu featured lentil soup and oven roasted root vegetables.
I headed out to the frosty garden for kale and parsley to put in the soup:


The leaves at the center of this patch of kale and parsley were still fresh and green even without a row cover:


The soup also contained home grown onions and garlic -- here's the pot simmering:


The roasted vegetables were all mine except for the addition of two store bought sweet potatoes. I added our own delicata squash, fingerling potatoes, sunchokes, garlic and rosemary. Here they are prepped for  the oven:


I parboiled the pots so that the vegetables would all be done about the same time. Here's the final result just before I devoured it:


I also used a warm hour midday to check for any overlooked sunchokes in the bed I cleared the week before-- and I dug out another pail full! There were lots of broken pieces, so I've been eating fried sunchokes and scrambled eggs for breakfast almost every day, and I'm not tired of them yet.