Subcribe:
 |
Join Us At:
 |  |
Posts Tagged ‘watercress’
Thank you Natalie for this awesome watercress soup recipe…
Melt a knob of butter is a large saucepan. Saute 2 onions, 2 leeks and about 5 cloves of garlic (all chopped) in the butter until soft.
Add 4 medium sized potatoes cubed, 4 rashers of bacon chopped, and a few sage and thyme leaves. Add enough stock of your choice to cover the vegetables (we used Beef). Simmer until potatoes are almost cooked. Add 2 large bunches of watercress and cook until watercress has just wilted through.
Blend soup in a food processor or blender and return to saucepan. Season to taste. You may like to add more stock at this point if you like a thiner soup.
Enjoy a bowl with a thick slice of freshly baked bread!
You could leave out the bacon and use a vegetable stock for a vegetarian version of this dish.
We grow our watercress hydroponically so it is available all year round. It is spray free. We recommend not to use watercress that is grown in creeks and streams as you never know what nasty chemicals could be flowing through these waterways!
Hi there, Spring is really in the air. We have seeded an early crop of squash and also rock melon. Seedlings are now available at the markets…lettuce, spinach, rocket and beetroot to name a few. Phil is seeding various varieties of tomatoes which we hope (weather permitting) will be available mid-October. It is very exciting instead of growing just lettuce as we have in previous years – throughout the property in different stages of development we have pak choy, rocket, spinach, fennel bulbs, watercress, chinese cabbage, radich, beetroot, carrots, potatoes, snowpeas, flat beans, huge amount of herbs, sweetpea flowers. Whew – this is certainly keeping us busy.
We had a huge amount of page views on our facebook page last week…wondering if it was something to do with the Horticulture New Zealand 2010 Conference that was being held?????
Hi there,,I cannot believe another week is over. The whole family had a really busy day (being Friday) – I was in charge of picking nasturtians and rocket. Phil with great excitement picked his first few bags of indoor tomatoes, did all the heavy lifting and well as a million other things. The girls were very busy indeed (the grandchildren supervising their every move) putting the salads, spinach, watercress and other general veges together ready for the boss to load the truck.
See you at the Markets – it looks as though Saturday will be a lovely day.