Our garden harvests are ramping up. I love having enough variety to make whole meals from the garden. Of all our plants, the kale has really taken off - typical. Despite being very good for us, kale is unanimously our family's least favourite vegetable. We are very good at growing it, however.
I am always looking for good ways to disguise the strong taste of kale in our meals. My most recent attempt: scape stir fry. I did well using a bunch of different vegetables from the garden: green onions, garlic scapes, borage leaves, chard, lovage, cabbage leaves, snap peas, wine cap mushrooms and, of course, kale.
I am not sure why the lovage (a perennial herb whose flavour is supposed to emulate celery) is so flavourful this year. Maybe the dry weather has concentrated its taste? On the plus side with all the lovage taste we could not even taste the kale. On the down side, the stir fry overwhelming tasted of lemony celery - like, a lot.
Our stir fry was definitely not the best tasting meal in history but it certainly was healthy and filled us up. It might be time to revert back to Mme. Gaelle's soup - a favourite around here - to use up our next kale harvest. Luckily that recipe does not call for lovage.
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