BreezyCooking
Washing Up
Calling all Southerners!!!
My weekly Saturday morning visit to our local Farmers' Market yielded not only tomatoes, baby zucchini, white turnips with scrumptious bushy greens attached, hydroponic butter lettuce, & baby Japanese eggplant, but also several crisp handfuls of what was billed as "Field Cress", which I've never had before.
I've spent some time googling it & have discovered it to be an originally wild but now cultivated green popular in Southern cooking, frequently known as "Creasy Greens".
A small taste of half a leaf sent my mouth into a tailspin!! Talk about HOT! The only way I can describe the flavor (which was good, don't get me wrong) is a mixture of Arugula, Mustard, Watercress, & Horseradish.
I did find three recipes online - one the traditional long slow boil with fatback, one with scrambled eggs, one a quiche - but was wondering if anyone else here has used it. I'm thinking it might work well as an Arugula substitute in a Gorgonzola pasta dish I like to make, but of course I'd have to use less of it. It's quite overpowering.
My weekly Saturday morning visit to our local Farmers' Market yielded not only tomatoes, baby zucchini, white turnips with scrumptious bushy greens attached, hydroponic butter lettuce, & baby Japanese eggplant, but also several crisp handfuls of what was billed as "Field Cress", which I've never had before.
I've spent some time googling it & have discovered it to be an originally wild but now cultivated green popular in Southern cooking, frequently known as "Creasy Greens".
A small taste of half a leaf sent my mouth into a tailspin!! Talk about HOT! The only way I can describe the flavor (which was good, don't get me wrong) is a mixture of Arugula, Mustard, Watercress, & Horseradish.
I did find three recipes online - one the traditional long slow boil with fatback, one with scrambled eggs, one a quiche - but was wondering if anyone else here has used it. I'm thinking it might work well as an Arugula substitute in a Gorgonzola pasta dish I like to make, but of course I'd have to use less of it. It's quite overpowering.