I was lucky to find these two at our weekly market this week. Laurel and red mustard 😊
Laurel is one of my dream trees. I’m dreaming about making my own dried leaves for cooking and also swags for deco. I bought a pot three years ago at a plant market in Berlin Botanical Garden but it died. Recently I found some Italian stands at our weekly market are selling laurel. As I was with my daughter with her buggy today I had space to bring it back.
Red mustard leaves are something must for me for hot summer like Shiso. It has nice spicy peppery taste. I top on cold noodles and rice bowl with other ingredients such as Natto, notorious sticky soy beans. Sometimes I can find the leaves at bio stores but mostly mice with other leaves and sold as “Asian Salad”. I had red mustard seeds few years ago and think about ordering some. But I hesitated to do so because of the expensive postal fee (more than the seeds!). But how lucky I am! Two small plants were 1 Euro 😁
I shouldn’t increase plants too much ... but there will be a plant market at Leipzig Botanical Garden this weekend ...
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ずっとほしかった月桂樹と赤リアスからし菜をマーケットで見つけて買いました。
月桂樹は料理用にドライにしたりスワッグを作ったりしたいなと妄想が止まりません。以前一度枯らしてしまっているので今度こそ大事に。増やして交換会に持っていくのもいいななんて。
赤リアスからし菜は最近ビオ屋さんでも見かけるようになったものの水菜やその他の葉物と混ざってアジアサラダなる売られ方をしていて、さらに結構高い。。自分で育てていたのですが種を使い切ってしまい、買おうにもネット販売のみで送料は種の値段以上。うーん。でもマーケットでは小さい苗がひとつ50セントでした。二つ買って125円。悪くありません。夏場お素麺や納豆丼のおともになります。
そして週末はライプチヒの植物園で植物市。。。買いすぎないようにしないと！