A neighbor who has a farm / garden brought over some vegetables and 2 whole chickens freshly slaughtered this morning. Some I know what it is, these other things I’m not sure.
What are these and how would you cook / prepare them?
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Not necessarily with all of them, but par boiling then sauteing in butter is generally fool-proof with greens.
Is the fifth picture down dill? I’ll pay good money for that if it is.
yes. and it smells divine!
I just have no idea what to do with it.
it’s all organic
My guess.
1 kale
2 kohlrabi
3 radish
4 beans*
5 dill or fennel
6 spring onion
7 Japanese celery *
8 broccoli rabe
9 edible chrysanthemum *
*tks @finley
*tks @chilifries
Make a fresh cucumber salad with it
I thought that too…but they are purple and very thick.
I think 7 is celery leaf and 8 is Kailan
Use dill to dress potatoes. Also nice in yogourt with cucumber.
My mother in law said to dice the dill and cook it into scrambled eggs or an omlette.
Curious but not sure about the combo.
I think you are right about 7.
Kai Lan is Chinese Broccoli.
All of it is crawling with little critters.
Rinsed with filtered water and many came off alive. Mostly caterpillars.
Would you soak in salt water?
That’s why you don’t see much organic corn. Too hard to keep our ear borers.
No need to soak those little guys, just eat them as is.
You tie some string around the top end as soon as the cob is pollinated. A bit of a pain, but it does work. Also, the bugs are seasonal - during the dry season they seem to cause little or no trouble.
kale
kohlrabi
possibly turnips (hard to tell) but more than likely daikon radishes.
beans - probably lablab purpurea, which despite the name comes in both purple and green versions. Cook them like broad beans, throwing the pods away.
dill - make some dill pickle (just add cucumbers …) or a dill-based dressing.
spring onions and celery - surely you know what these are for?!
gailan - it’s really good stir-fried with a bit of oyster sauce.
shungiku or “edible chrysanthemum” - it often goes into huo guo.
Thank you. Glad to finally know what that’s called.
Good tip. Not so much work for a personal garden.
This looks like a nice recipe for Shungiku
Here in Indonesia, there is a kind of Chrysanthemum leaf eaten with peanut sauce.
Darn, I was hoping to call dibs on that dill. I buy mine dried from iHerb because I’ve never seen it here. Flower market maybe?
I don’t think the OP’s selling.
I’ll keep what I have, but I can ask the person who gave it to me if she is willing to sell.
I’ve bought dill plants from the Jianguo flower market, but it’s not always available.
Cheers, man. Location could be an issue. It would need to be within reasonable driving distance from Taoyuan.
If she’s prepared to sell I could pick some up for @Steve4nLanguage as well. I think he lives in Taoyuan.
