Potful of Health

[delicious_irony]

I just made a Green Soup.

Ingredients comprise the following: one entire head of garlic, half a kilo of chopped onion, a handful of random stock cubes (maybe four or five), a kilo of spinach leaves (believe me, that's a LOT), the leaves from a bunch of beetroot, a quarter kilo of french beans, and half a kilo of leaves, flowers and buds from the

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[manintheboat]

HA HA HA. You have to prune your Bay. I've been babying my Bay for about a year and I now have 14 leaves. :)
It lives in a small pot in the living room.

I've never had Moringa.

[delicious_irony]

I put my Bay in the ground, and I had to baby it for a couple of years before it got its taproot down into the water table. Now it's a bushy shrubby two metres (six and a half feet, maybe).

Moringa leaves taste quite strong, kind of musky and bitter. A lot of people don't like it. You can get the dried leaf powder in health food shops as a supplement. The young cooked pods (called 'drumsticks' like the musical instrument) are like a cross between asparagus and french beans. You can get them frozen in shops that cater to the Indian or Bengali community. They're quite nice in stews or curries.

Sadly Moringa dies at the touch of frost. We never get frost where I live, so it's a happy tree.

[drhoz]

oh dear - the mornings are regularly sub-zero here in Wellard :( I have to scrape the ice off the windscreen

[redbraids]

Sounds yummy!

[staxxy]

nice!