Salad days

 That title is misleading as every day is a salad day here but now my lettuce are really starting to grow and it's lovely adding decent sized leaves to my salad mix

I have picked everything but the sauerkraut from the garden... although I did make the sauerkraut from a shop bought white cabbage last year. It's a mix of two varieties of kale, three different colours of rainbow chard, spring onions, pansies, rosemary flowers, spinach, lettuce, sprout leaves and beetroot leaves. I dressed it simply with good olive oil and balsamic vinegar and grated a handful of Red Leicester cheese over the top. It was absolutely gorgeous. I have no idea why people struggle to achieve five portions of fruit and veg each day. Tonight I'm cooking steak and serving it with Brussels sprout shoots and leaves, two varieties of kale and their flowering tops, lovely buttery mashed swede and some roasted Jerusalem artichokes. All fresh picked from the garden.  It's time you all started your own veg plot and saw how much you can grow in a small space and just how much money you could be saving.