The greens in the garden are going to be bolting soon. There’s several kinds of lettuce, collards, mustard greens and a green I’m not quite sure about. I think I planted this same green last year and never knew what it was. It’s one of the free packets that comes with Baker Creek’s orders and I always plan to make a note of what it is and I don’t. I’ll take Chad some greens when I go there this week and I’ll get busy getting some freeze dried before they all get bitter.
These are the mystery greens. They are so good! When I’m out working in the garden, I’ll rinse some off with the water hose and munch on them while I’m out there. Cooper likes them too. At this point, we’re eating some of the greens with every meal trying enjoy them while they’re here.
This morning I made omelettes and added the greens to them. Delicious!
These little jelly jars of breakfast sausage that I canned are so convenient. I dump the sausage in a skillet, heat it up to melt the grease, drain it on paper towels, then use the same skillet to make the omelettes.
A quick and easy breakfast!
Lunch today is ham and beans out of a jar, a salad and collards from the garden. I did check to see if we’re eating too many greens and the recommendation is to eat 2 to 2.5 cups of greens per day. Really, we probably eat greens 4 or 5 days per week and usually only at one meal. The greens will be gone by the end of this month or, if I’m lucky, they may last into the first or second week of June but we don’t have much longer with them. 🙁
bfiresheets says
Those greens are beautiful! Could they be a type of Swiss Chard?
judy.blog@gmail.com says
No. It’s this – Tatsoi
vivoaks says
Your mystery greens look like Swiss Chard to me. My mom used to grow that in our garden when I was growing up. Sometimes there’s some red in the stalks, but it sure looks like Swiss Chard.
judy.blog@gmail.com says
It’s something called Tatsoi.
RebeccaL says
The measurement of “how much” greens you can eat is funny: is that raw or cooked?
judy.blog@gmail.com says
Well, I don’t know! If we add greens to breakfast meals, that’s usually about 1 cup of cooked greens (for the two of us so 1/2 cup each). Then if we eat eat a salad, that’s probably 1-1/2 cups of greens each. If we cook collards or spinach for dinner, that’s probably another cup. We don’t always have greens at breakfast, and dinner but we usually have greens of some kind at least two meals per day. Once the cool weather greens are gone, we’ll have beet tops, sweet potato leaves, horseradish leaves,
When I’m outside working, I consume more raw greens than I probably realize