Barefoot Kitchen Witch - In the Garden

Broccoli Rabe, Complete

We've harvested (or picked, I guess, since we're not a farm) nearly all of our broccoli rabe. 

It grew so well this year - big and leafy and slow to bolt, until just within the last few days.  We did notice that the rows of rabe plants in front (i.e. the southern row) grew taller and leafier than the rows behind it, and the smaller plants were the ones that suddenly had had enough and decided to bolt.

It all tastes good, though.  I like rabe best sauted in olive oil and garlic, maybe with a sprinkling of grated parmesan on top.  Simple.

   

They're Up! - 3 April 2008

At least one of the five buckets has a pea plant coming up beneath the row cover...

And, the broccoli rabe in the main raised bed is up, too!

I'll be posting a recipe for broccoli rabe over on my main site later this morning and I'll link to it here as well.  Of course, you need your broccoli rabe to be a bit bigger than it is in the picture above.  But at least it's something to look forward to.  And if you don't want to wait, there's always the grocery store.

Broccoli Rabe is In! - 23 March 2008

Bill planted the whole raised bed with broccoli rabe - it'll come up early - before we need to plant anything else - and it's one of my favorites.  So this is in, and the peas.  Yay, Spring.