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RE: Cold Hoops Mid Winter Update - More Insights from The Poly Low Tunnel Experiment
Thank you for braving cold water to take these photos and share with us ;-) It's nice your Spinach tastes so buttery and sweet in the cold weather. Most annual leafy greens have bitter flavor when it gets too hot here in the summer so instead, I grow perennial vegetables which grow year-round here.
Haha no problem. Yep I hear you about the bitter! In southern california I worked for a farm that was inspired to grow lettuce all year round and we did so many crazy things to try to get them to not be bitter. I tried to convince them to grow things like chard or other greens instead... go figure. Anyway I kind of enjoy bitter lettuce if there's other things in the salad too ;)
I heard that, just like most wild and indigenous edible plants, bitter flavor means more nutrients. Asian people eat bitter melons for its medicinal effects.
Yep that's what I've read too. But bitter is definitely an acquired taste for most of us. Luckily we can use culinary arts to make things like dandelion, dock leaves, lettuce, etc less bitter by combining other ingredients such as fats, spices, other veggies, etc to dilute, mask or otherwise spoil our delicate palates :P
Haha ... I like it. That's why cooking is a combination of both science and art. By the way, it can be a true enjoyment for family and friends to cook and eat together. :-)
Totally! Good times & good food :)