{"id":3140,"date":"2013-03-18T16:28:38","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T23:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amyglaze.com\/?p=3140"},"modified":"2013-05-30T19:58:31","modified_gmt":"2013-05-31T02:58:31","slug":"purple-lettuces-with-fennel-orange-mint-sour-grass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amyglaze.com\/purple-lettuces-with-fennel-orange-mint-sour-grass\/","title":{"rendered":"Purple Lettuces with Fennel, Orange, Mint & Sour Grass"},"content":{"rendered":"

I remember my early salad days walking to school with my three best friends: lunch pails in hand, pig-tails with bows, blue jeans slightly flared, singing songs along the way and picking sour grass and biting on the stems. We loved sour grass. Until my Dad told us dogs like to pee on it. That changed everything. Then my small but powerful girl gang would seek out honey suckle on the way to school instead \u2013 much higher up and much less risk.<\/p>\n

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Lollo Rosso, Red Romaine, Red Leaf, Shaved Fennel, Mint, Orange, and Sour Grass Flowers<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

My idea of sour grass as an edible plant changed to it being a really<\/em> bad weed.<\/p>\n

Much later as a young married adult in my very first house, I had an incredible garden. In my SF Mission garden I planted 5 fruit trees, annuals, perennials, roses, herbs, strawberries, vegetables \u2013 it was magical and a lot<\/em> of work. That little sour grass plant tried several times to sneak its wild ways into my carefully crafted-to-look-whimsical garden.\u00a0But I stamped it out quickly and mercilessly…<\/p>\n

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Sour Grass and Mustard Flower Fields Forever<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Now my commute from San Francisco to Pescadero winds south along Highway 1. The freeway divides the rugged cliffs & ocean from the verdant mountains splashed with flourescent yellow. Mixed in with mustard flowers, the neon sour grass is untamed and glorious.\u00a0I cannot get over how beautiful it is this Spring \u2013 truly breathtaking. Who would have thought?<\/p>\n

Speaking of glorious, the lettuce in Pescadero right now is gorgeous. This salad is a mixture of ruffly red Lollo Rosso & deep purple Red Romaine from Del Sur farm <\/a>and beautiful red leaf lettuce from Pie Ranch<\/a>. I always love shaved fennel (Blue House Farm<\/a>) with orange & mint. Navel oranges are at their peak and they’re inexpensive right now \u2013 even the organic ones.<\/p>\n

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Sour grass flowers just adds a little color and a little imagination. They do contain oxalic acid (as do turnip leaves) so I wouldn’t advise eating bushels of them, but they are hardly the weed I once thought them to be…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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