Never enough thyme nutrition8/11/2023 ![]() ![]() (Ok, ok, I hear you it’s still summer!) It reminds me of Christmas in Sweden and having cooked red cabbage with the Christmas ham. Red Cabbage is one of my favourite winter vegetables. Or you can be a little bit more “out there” and add them in a salad like I’ve done here. They are of course delicious on their own as a simple snack, perhaps paired with a few walnuts for extra brain power potential, or on top of the morning smoothie / porridge / granola. Their blue plant power comes from the phytonutrient anthocyanins which have been shown to improve both memory and eyesight. This recipe may sound like an unlikely combination but it actually covers all the different taste elements in one bowl and it’s also a visual delight! Apparently most people don’t eat enough of blue / purple foods and in this bowl you get two different types straight up.īlueberries are tasty little nutritional power-houses. So if you happen to have some tips on how I can kindly ask them to go and snack else where, please share! At the moment it’s particularly bad and they’ve eaten a lot of my precious kale. And three, e very year around this time we seem to get an infestation of little butterfly larveas that eat anything that belongs to the cabbage family. Two, they take ages to grow (and that’s hard if you are low on patience). One, I don’t have much space and each head takes up a lot of space. I’ve never tried growing it myself for I think three reasons. Now, for me it is a seasonal vegetable and one I tend to mostly enjoy Autumn – Winter – early Spring time. I don’t know when my love affair with red cabbage started, but somewhere along the way it did. This means that sometimes I don’t get to act on the ideas I get, or end up trying things, even shooting the recipe and then never getting around to publish it, because life gets in the way or perhaps I’m not organised enough. At least if you are trying to keep things somewhat seasonal. ![]() If you have any pearls of wisdom to share they will be most gratefully appreciated.I’ve been wanting to share this recipe for the longest time ever! And I’ve also wanted to share a red cabbage recipe here forever… The funny thing is when you do food blogging though is that there’s so much timing involved. On the bright side, I've mixed a goodly amount of aged bunny poo in w/ the dirt, so I'm hoping this will give it incentive to grow! I'll attach a pic of the bunny, but it's from the first year when it was covered w/ the Kentucky Blue grass. I expect I will be down on my knees nightly praying to the thyme to grow, as it has very little soil depth to work w/. For a little contrast (perhaps too little, I fear) I will be "planting" elfin thyme on the "inner" side of the ears. I am now in the process of covering it w/ wooly thyme, which will hopefully lend a "furry" quality to it. So, then it was suggested to me that thyme might work well on it. So, then I decided to cover it w/ moss, but there was some question as to it's hardiness, especially if it were forced to endure the kind of winter we suffered through here in New England last winter. Tried trimming it w/ various hand tools & also a hedge trimmer, but ultimately my little hand held lawn shears did the best job. The grass grew in pretty well, but I hadn't realized that I would have to trim the damn thing every week, BY HAND, & that it would take a whole weekend to do so. Then I covered the bunny-to-be w/ Kentucky Blue grass seed. Then I covered it w/ a lovely mousse-like muck of dirt & bunny poo (which I had (& have) in abundance). I then covered the whole thing w/ bunny poo, then I covered it w/ wire to round out the corners of the cages & give shape to it. We figure it weighs around 15,000 pounds, perhaps more. The base consists of several large & also small cages filled w/ large (& small) rocks. It's 20 feet long & 8' 4" to the tip of the tallest ear. Two years ago I created a giant bunny on my front lawn. ![]()
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