[Sca-cooks] philosophical salad question

[Anne-Marie Rousseau]

the availability of fresh greens is very much climate dependant...I know here in cold and wet seattle we can get 
baby greens to grow almost year round, especially if they're in a pot on a sheltered side of the house... even if 
they freeze, they come back pretty dang quick! and our violas/johnny jump ups go pretty much year round, even if 
they get snowed on. they just hate heat, apaprently!

--AM, who has a yard full of crocus, baby sorrel and other fun springy things right now :)


On Thu Feb 22 16:28 , Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise  sent:

>> As for nasturtiums, i often include them in my salads. Edible flowers 
>> are sold at the redoubtable Berkeley Bowl. Among other available 
>> flowers are pinks/carnations (yeah, not the same thing but related) 
>> and johnny-jump-ups/good king henry/pansies.
>
>Yeah, my question about nasturtiums was more about when they began to be 
>used in salads.
>
>Pinks and pansies do seem to be documentable as food additions, along 
>with borage flowers.
>
>But I've never seen johnny-jump-up called good king henry before-- could 
>that be a localism? The Good King Henry I know is Chenopodium 
>bonus-henricus, and surprisingly, at the moment wikipedia has a good 
>picture of it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_King_Henry
> 
>> The one question i'd have about raw salads is what is in season in 
>> the culture of the recipes of the feast. I'd think that in January in 
>> what is now Germany, fresh greens would be scarce, whereas, in 
>> southern Spain or what is now southern Italy there would be more 
>> available.
>
>I'm thinking of doing a Preserving the Harvest class for pennsic which 
>will include info on the various ways of *extending* the harvest I've 
>found mentioned. I'd have to sit down with Hyll's Gardener's Labyrinth 
>and so forth, but I am pretty sure there are a number of greens that 
>overwinter and which were known in to be useable in winter; others could 
>be stored and/or brought into shelter (such as chicory).
>
>-- 
>-- Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, Knowledge Pika jenne at fiedlerfamily.net 
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>wandering around who need students." -- Dan Guernsey
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