Headless
Sprouts without head, Brassica oleracea var. acephala edo var. viridis, Galician cabbage and wheat cabbage. In Galicia it is the cabbage, the most common. It is used to make the green soup, which has a great glory. From Euskal Herria and following the shore of the Atlantic, you will see it in almost every vegetable garden to the south of Portugal: in the head of a long and thin leg wide bluish leaves, proud, never with a head upright, without shrinking. This is what the word acephala means, headless. What will I eat without a head? Sprouts like everybody else, leaves. Not wrapped in the head, but with leaves. One by one at the end of the stem, proudly. They cut and collect leaves to leaf, always those at the bottom. As the soil clears, the leg gets longer and longer. The dictionary gathers it as follows: “The long bereaved legs are also getting up, the legs already hanging from here.”
Following what is not distinguished between land and sea, in the South Atlantic Ocean, we will find many varieties of cabbages: long stalks and short stalks, wilts and sweaters, red and blue... Each culture has its favorites: Asturians, Galicians, Portuguese green and red... I think the worst of cabbages is ours. It is more difficult to keep the old when the news, the “news” are made available. And our people have lived at a geographical crossroads. And from the outside, a lot of things have come and have stayed easy.
I enjoyed cabbages and turnips in Lisbon (Brassica napus). At the spectacular Feria de la Ribera, an old one that did not want to tell me where his name was, where it was not – said But Lisbon, with no distance – he showed me his love for the turnips. The truth is, it sells beautiful. Another one next door offered gargoyles, turnips and cabbages. Shoppers got them, finer.
Recently, a radio listener has asked me if they eat turnips. Although in other times they also ate a lot here, today we have them relegated to the onion of gastronomy. But I didn't forget them. Ask if Álava, Bizkaia and Gipuzkoa merge in the area, if there are grains of arbi, turnips or arbi-arrow. At the price of angula or ezkaile; without head.
Datorren uztailean izango al dugu lanik? Izango al dugu labore uzta biltzeko lanik? Gure aldean, etorkizuna planifikatzeko eta antolatzeko gaitasun handia dute landareek; ia landare guztiek. Bere zikloa biziko den tokian gertatuko diren gorabeheretara egokitua izango da... [+]
Omitting all the fruits meted out,” the expression says. Mandio is a handful of apples, pumpkin and kiwi (Malus domestica, Cucurbita maxima and Actinidia chinensis). Many more will be maize (Zea mays); or beans (Phaseolus vulgaris); potato (Solanum tuberosum), onion (Allium... [+]
Do you have a vegetable garden? As a child, the two orchards I've met at home had a wall. One on the lap and the other on one side. A good use of the walls will make the garden have a great benefit. It will create a shelter: it will be placed in the right place to shade, or to... [+]
I should like to take this opportunity to comment on it to the reader: the longest days of the year have gone and the night has elongated and the daylight has begun to shorten. This will have terrible consequences on plants and let's avoid in nosotros.Este summer that we just... [+]
Make a hole with the planter and put the plant in. The grief guindillas (Capsicum annuum), which will heat up by the summer of this year, are already planted. Just to think about it, my teeth got sweaty.
In our town the river Oria becomes a curl, and in the people of the banks... [+]
From red, Rubus fruticosus and Rubus ulmifolius. In the red stem the new buds and leaves are red, although soon they will look green. In autumn, even when the cold burns your skin, the leaves will become red. Red in butter and red in old trash. Some say that the name of Rubus of... [+]
Most crops have been harvested. The end of the plant cycle is the germ that initiates the cycle of another new plant. When we replenish the harvest, we tend to collect fruits or seeds and eat from the two to warm up the winter. The plant has devoted enormous forces to the... [+]
Garlic, Allium sativum, is never missing in our kitchen. Dry heads hanging all year and new for the first six months. Garlic heads and grains are drifting away from home to the orchard, the time of sows. Also later, outside the planting season, garlic should go to the orchard... [+]
The garlic season is already here. Planting season of garlic. His harvest will be later, and he has to start working in the head. In the head, the garlic. But we don't all look for the garlic head. The garlic sown for greens is increasingly seen in orchards. Also in the orchards... [+]
I answer with a point, not of fear, but of respect and shame, more and more often, to whom I ask almost anything on plants. And that point is getting bigger and bigger.
In the evening, someone asked me when to sow the tomato (Solanum lycopersicum). I was willing to give way to... [+]
The Catalan town of Puigcerdá is located on the mountain, in the Pyrenees, at 1,200 meters altitude, and is home to harsh winters. It is reminiscent of the times when we were experiencing a more unpeaceful climate here.
For hundreds of years they have eaten there, like us,... [+]
The most renowned saffron, the Crocus sativus, is Spanish. Everyone sells Spanish saffron. Many of the azafranes that are produced in the world travel to Spain and are sold as if outside here. A formidable theft is organized. It's expensive, it's very expensive, and the thymus is... [+]
Casp herbs (Symphytum officinale and Symphytum tuberosum) are suitable for auzolan. They do a great job of promoting their environment, an ecosystem that complements their life. They're kind to the ones next to them and they're kind. Above all, take into account those who have... [+]
Baratzean oraindik aldatu gabe ditut. Nire bihotzeko fruituak. Ameriketatik ekarriak; ondo ekarriak, alajaina. Geure herriko erriberetan ematen dira onenak. Finak, samurrak, leunak, sotilak... Piperrez ari naiz, Capsicum sp; ez edozein piperrez, ordea. Bada makina bat, lodi,... [+]