In Season in April

2 03 2009

watercress

April is always our favourite month. April Fool’s Day, Easter Sunday, World Health Day, showers, rainbows, and a certain someone’s birthday ; )

Here’s a look at the list of seasonal veggies which April will bring with it.

Please do use the comments box below to let us know which ones you’d most like us to feature in the coming weeks.

Asparagus (towards end of month), Cabbage, Endive, Mushrooms, Purple sprouting broccoli, Radishes (early), Rhubarb, Sorrel, Spinach, Spring Greens, Spring Onions, Swiss Chard, and Watercress.

And who out there would like to help me understand the difference between Endive and Chicory, because I still have some confusion when it comes to that topic!

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Date : March 2, 2009
Tags: April, seasonal food, Spring
Categories : in our veg box this week, in season this month, ingredients

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3 03 2009: AJ Bailey (11:21:54) :

This is what Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall said:

When I say chicory (aka endive, aka witloof), I mean the pale green-white, tight little missile-shaped leafy vegetable, not the blowsy, tangly, frizzy salad leaves that share its name. There is plenty of confusion here: what we call chicory, the French call endive; what they call chicorée frisée, we call curly endive. The Belgians, with pragmatic Flemish accuracy, call it witloof, or white leaf. I think we should all call it that. [...] Today, chicory is grown in the field, then its roots are harvested, packed in sand and forced in dark sheds (rather like that other bitter queen, rhubarb) to produce those tight little heads which, incidentally, the French call chicons. All clear now?

Bitter and Twisted on the Guardian site

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3 03 2009: VegBox Recipes (12:07:24) :

AJ –

all I can say is:

>_<

What a baffling subject. Even more potentially confusing than the broccoli / calabrese debate!

Well at least now I can confidently say that I have written about “chicory-which-Hugh-thinks-we-should-call-whiteleaf” and named it accurately (from a UK perspective) as chicory.

http://blog.vegbox-recipes.co.uk/2009/02/09/februarys-first-veggie-in-the-spotlight-chicory/

And now I want to be sure to feature endive, the curly one, as something different.

My veg patch temporarily became a minefield. Thanks to you, and Hugh, all mines have been cleared!

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