Monday 3 December 2012

Harvest Monday - 3 December

Despite having written last week that I was unlikely to be participating in Harvest Monday for a while, I just couldn't resist...

Apart from the usual supply of fresh herbs, my harvest this week consisted solely of this trio of Parsnips:


They are of the variety "Panache". Not prize-winners for the showbench, but good healthy specimens nonetheless, and even sweeter than they would otherwise have been after our first really hard frosts of the Winter. [Freezing is supposed to help convert starch into sugar.]

No, not an igloo, but a frozen bell-cloche

My Parsnips formed one of the ingredients for the very warming and belly-filling  "Five-a-Day Gratin" which I made on Friday.

13 comments:

  1. Oooh lovely parsnips. Yours are much more straight and uniform than mine ever were!

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  2. Very nice looking parsnips, one of my favourite veg.

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  3. Parsnips are always a welcome harvest.

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  4. Ah miss them already. Trying to grow parsnip in this tropical weather, raining every afternoon now here. Sowed the seeds more than 1 week ago not yet germinate. But I was so surprised that carrot seeds took less than a week to germinate.

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  5. Parsnips are such an underrated vegetable, maybe it's because they aren't very pretty. They are delicious though and your "five a day" looks yummy too.

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  6. I love parsnips, but they never tasted as good as they did in England. I have never grown them, are they easy?

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    1. I think they are easy once you have got past the germination stage. They are often reluctant to germinate and many times I have re-sown, only to find that my original batch germinates later, as well as the second sowing. After that, there is not much to do apart from occasional watering if the conditions are very dry, and maybe some weeding.

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  7. I would have posted to show them off too. Lovely work. How long do they take for you?

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  8. They look good! Haven't had them in years - they are not popular in this area

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  9. That looks so delicious. Everything is better with cream and butter.

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    1. Yep, I agree. But isn't it a shame that butter and cream are so blasted fattening!

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  10. All my parsnips are dug up now and resting peacefully in earth in the greenhouse. There is nothing worse than trying to dig them up when the ground is frozen solid.

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