The first of the the season, "bandicooted" from the sweet potato patch and destined for this roasted vegetable salad.'Cause sometimes a big plate of roasted fresh veg is all what it's all about ;-)
I started this challenge on January 5 - it is my aim to harvest at least one thing from my garden every day this year - and photograph it. If I can manage to pick 360 different varieties, then so much the better! This is #69 of a possible 360.
Cheers,
8 comments:
I love roast kumara...I'd make some every day if I could!! I love seeing all your photos each day...I hope you get better soon!
Its funny that you call the orange ones Kumera here, in NZ we call the purple one with the lighter flesh Kumera. T he orange one is just sweet potato to us.
Hello Andromeda,
Thank you :-)
Hi Deb,
Really? Is it region-dependent, because our kiwi neighbour calls the orange one kumara and has never seen the purple one (but grew an all-white one)?! Weird :-)
Cheers, Julie
Maybe so, or maybe things have changed in the 25 years since I lived there:-)
To be honest the kumera we had was like a cross between the purple and the white.
Thanks Julie, Have been reading your blogg for a while now and thought it was over time to pass on my thanks and deep gratitude for the effort you make to share your journey with us strangers out in the wide world. With 3 little ones and a 1/4 acre in Central Oz, our challenges are uphill too so you provide true inspiration, a feast for the eyes and the mind. Many, many thanks. Cheerio from Katja. By the way, is there a bigpicture happy snap some where of your space?
I can get purple, yellow and orange Kumara in Welington. All are grown way up north in the Dargaville district of the North Island, and all are super scrummy.
Once upon a time, back in the 1970s, we could only get the purple skinned kumara that have a pale flesh when raw - it turns yellow once cooked (best roasted!)
Happy gardening, harvesting, cooking and eating these beauties - YUM
Now the other colours frequently are available, and just the same price. I love cooking with the "orange all the way through" ones, especially baking them in the oven. Might not look so good when removed from the oven heat, but once skinned the taste of the kumara fleash is intense and delicious
Awesome :) I hope it tastes as good as it looks
Hi Deb,
That could be true :-) They're all good though!
Hi Katja,
Oh thank you :-) Comments like yours, so make the time I spend blogging worthwhile. You can find a pic of my backyard in this post, click on the pic to enlarge it.
Hi Mickle,
I love the mall, but like you I find the orange ones are really my fave :-)
Hi Caitlyn,
It was roasted - and yes, it did :-)
Cheers, Julie
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