You were all so forthcoming and knowledgable when I asked you to name the mystery vegetable a while ago. I’m still blown away that you named Crosnes, the little Chinese tuber that tastes a bit like artichokes and looks a lot like maggots. So I thought you might enjoy helping me again by identifying this cute little salad crop. This is a photo of a semi-succulent juicy red salad leaf that was adorning my grilled vegetable sandwich at a cafe in Santa Monica, California yesterday. My friend Greg Wendt is the chap waving the little leaves at you in hope that you can name this salad crop. If you can name it, I can recommend it by name. Which I’d like to do, as it was very very tasty…
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Hi there! It looks a lot like orach in colour, but the leaves are sorrel shaped. Was it lemony? Sorrel. Spinachy? Orach. Although it could also have been something else . . .
Posted by Anna on 25th March 2007 at 11:51 pm | Permalink
Not lemony or spinachy. Quite green-leafy tasting, I’d say almost a tannin-ish flavour, and a deep red cabbagey colour…
Posted by Ysanne on 27th March 2007 at 5:18 am | Permalink
Is it bull’s blood? I’ve seen it as a sprouted microgreeny thing. not full size.
Posted by megan B on 2nd April 2007 at 4:22 pm | Permalink
I checked. It’s in fact bulls blood. A beet green. Voila!
Posted by megan B on 3rd April 2007 at 7:56 am | Permalink
It is orach. We grew this a couple years back. It grows like a weed!! Very god though.
Posted by Becky on 3rd April 2007 at 8:57 am | Permalink
And no man’s got more bullish blood than my optimist friend Greg Wendt! But what’s with that expression!? Somebody get this photo a balloon with the word “ICK!” written in…
Posted by Bill C. on 3rd April 2007 at 11:46 am | Permalink
Bill, I can assure you the expression on Greg’s face is sheer delight! The leaves were delicious, whether bullish or orach…:-)
Posted by Ysanne on 5th April 2007 at 1:36 pm | Permalink