The Barefoot Kitchen Witch

Fresh Green and Purple Spring Rolls

Have you ever had nime chow?  Fresh Vietnamese spring rolls usually containing lettuce, thai basil, rice noodles, bean sprouts and shrimp – one of my family’s favorites when we eat out.

We’ve also made them at home, and they’re so easy, we should do it more often.

For this version, I was, frankly, inspired by the pea pods in our garden buckets.

Spring Gnocchi Two Ways

Why are they called “Spring” gnocchi?  Well, partly because of the color – the green ones, that is.  And partly because the chives in the second version are among the first greens we have sprouting up in our yard every March.  I could have combined everything into one batch of gnocchi, but I thought it would be fun to have two different flavors, and two different shapes.  Plus – twice as much gnocchi!

So here’s how it all evolved…

Pea Pod Pickin’

First harvest!

So, this morning Bill and Julia went out to pick peas.

Blauwschokker Update!

Remember the other day when I showed you the pretty pink blossoms on our Blue Podded Blauschokker pea plants?

Well I’ve had a couple more surprises since then.

The Blue Podded Blauwschokkers are Blooming!

The what??

The Blue Podded Blauwschokkers!

I have to slow myself down and sound out that last word, so don’t feel bad if you do, too….