Garden of Erin: Cauliflower and Cabbage

Today I harvested some cabbage leaves and sauteed them up with some salt and apple cider vinegaer, served on a La Brea demi baguette with chicken/apple sausage and onions for dinner. The cabbage plants look good, but it looks like it will be awhile yet before they form full heads...so I stole a few leaves from each plant and I hope they don't mind. It was fairly bitter, but it's been quite warm the last couple weeks, so hopefully the heads will be sweeter as we get into February and March, which are typically cooler.

The cauliflower in my garden desperately needs to be harvested and eaten. I think perhaps I'll make something tomorrow or Sunday. This vegan recipe caught my eye. I have no interest in going totally vegan, but Elliott and I could certainly do with less meat and more veg in our diet. I love mushrooms, rosemary, and sweet potatoes, so I don't see how this could be bad.

Over the last few days we've also had a second broccoli harvest and I harvested a few stalks of celery to throw into an oyster stew. The broccoli has been very good, and I was very glad to read that I can expect additional harvests from the plants I harvested from. The celery was full of flavor, even a bit over the top. I'm sure this is due to lack of watering and the heat. It was certainly edible though, and I look forward to making soup stock with it and throwing it into soups, stuffings, and other recipes. Unless it eases up a bit on the taste though, I don't think I'll be snacking on it again soon.

*Update: That recipe for sweet potato and cauliflower mash with mushroom gravy was seriously delicious and extremely filling. Most definitely a make again. I also suspect it freezes well. It was so filling that there are plenty of leftovers!