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| That ain't no cereal bowl! |
Insane broccoli production! It just keeps growing! And growing! AND GROWING. I started with 12 little plants, and ended up pulling out a couple that struggled. So, with 9 or 10 broccoli plants I have had a constant harvest of fresh broccoli, daily, for over two months. I have a huge bowl full of fresh broccoli in the kitchen. I have a freezer packed full of plastic bags of chopped frozen broccoli. And I have given away at least 3 or 4 grocery-store-sized servings of broccoli to friends. I even game some to an enemy! Well, frienemy I guess.
I used a variety called pacman broccoli from Bonnie Plants that I got at Home Depot. It has far surpassed my expectations and grown more successfully and productively than anything I've ever grown (and I've grown a plant or two in my life).
First it grows one giant head of broccoli. You cut it, and two more heads grow from the original stem. Cut those, and then you get four next time! Then eight! Ahhhhh more broccoli!
WHAT TO MAKE?!?
Last night Cait made some chilli pepper oil ginger chicken and black
bean dish, and we added broccoli florets at the end. It fit in
perfectly. Earlier in the summer I grilled a lot of the broccoli.
Recently I've frozen some of it and given a lot away. I want to make
something like Adrienne made with the harvest I gave JJ. She made a
creamy chicken and bowtie pasta with broccoli florets, which looked
fabulous on Facebook. Someone suggested roasting at some point, which I need to try. Any other ideas?
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| Aje's chicken alfredo! |
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| Cait's chili pepper chicken! |
