Well I am in my 50th year now (still act like a silly little kid...the wife says) and owing to a lack of greens on my allotment about 3 or 4 weeks ago I decided to give sprout tops a try, never thought anything that had been in the ground that long growing could taste so tender, certainly will not be disgarding them in the future.
:) :)
Strangely enough my OH says the same... mutters about me making mud pies or similar.
Glad you've grown up at last, Richard!!
The tops are the best part. And when they have whole stems at the Farmers' Market, only buy the ones with lush tops!
Quote from: tim on April 18, 2006, 17:12:45
Glad you've grown up at last, Richard!!
Thanks Tim. ;) ;)
the crispy sea weed we eat at the local chinese is believe it or not sprout tops.
not a lot of people know that. :
peterpiper
Hush!!-I am into my fifties as well,we all knew that sprout tops and kale tasted nice-then the `trendies` got wind and we now have to pay a fortune when ours runs out ;) About 12 years ago I got the idea of sowing mixed salad leaves in mushroom punnets and selling them to my local whole food shop for salad out of season-now look at the supermarkets >:(
Close to it, Peter, but difficult to get sprout tops 365 days a year?
With apologies - more like 'spring greens'? And we do not soak them in oil & sugar, like the takeaway someone gave us recently, however delicious that may be.
To be fair, they don't travel well.
Crispy seaweed is usually cabbage or even better savoy
What a waste of a Savoy!!
I used to eat loads of sprout tops when I was a student in the late eighties and early nineties. One of my favourite foods (especially if I got lots of mini sprouts) and about 10p for a huge bag off the market. Silly price nowadays.
Indeed
They are nice - but the problem is pigeons like to sit on mine and cr*p all over them >:(
:o They sit on mine eat e'm and then crap on them. >:(
Enviromesh keeps the blighters off
Tried that, the still sit on that and peck though it... You can eat the shoots down the stem aswell.
Are you sure you mean proper Enviromesh? I used to cover up with ordinary 1/2" plastic mesh, it was useless, there's no way the pigeons round here can get through the genuine stuff though