Garden Report - First Pickings

April 25, 2008

Tonight's supper was Maine grown potato salad with garden fresh chives and lovage. Celine was simply delighted to pick the first of the garden's offerings as part of her supper prep tonight - she takes after her mom in her love of all things green and blooming. We rounded out the salad with a couple farm ingredients - carrots and chopped dilly beans that I canned last summer. The other additions of chopped olives and spicy mustard, lemon juice and tahini dressing were decidedly not grown in Maine. We made up for it by serving the potatoes on a bed of farm greenhouse grown spicy mesclun mix. It was a wonderful meal made even lovelier by the hyacinth, our first cut flower this season, that graced our table. And like my daughter I was simply delighted.