Bye bye Geoff
I was very excited this year as I managed to get hold of a good source of Salsola or land seaweed. It's in the tumbleweed family and is a strange samphire like vegetable much prized in Japanese cuisine (and Italian for that matter). I only planted it out maybe four weeks ago but it's been quick to bed down and do some serious growing. Although all my sources said to pick it young, it's often hard to decide what young is. Anyhow Joy Larkcom cleared that mystery up - as young as possible it seems. Today I picked a great handful and briskly boiled it for a minute. It tastes very queer. Not unpleasant, but odd raw. Cooked is a whole different experience. It has all that is divine about samphire. That crunchy, nascent taste and then this amazing salty afternote. Quite the best stuff I've tasted in weeks and I say that as someone who stood in the raspberry patch and ate till I was covered in juice. It's my new favourite thing. I'll grow twice as much next year.
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