Home grown salad

My first harvest of salad greens from my window-sill patch inspired me to make this simple and healthy chickpea salad.

Recipie time:

The salad!
I harvested some salad leaves from my window-sill garden, about two hand fulls.
Soaked half a cup of chickpeas in warm water for an hour and then pressure cooked them (without salt). After boiling I sauteed it with salt, black pepper, chilli powder and a pinch of asaphoetida.
Cooked an egg with salt and black pepper.
Let all the warm ingredients cool down before adding to the greens.

The dressing!
Made a basic cream vinaigrette dressing by mixing together the following ingredients:
3:1 portions of olive oil and rice white vinegar.
Salt and pepper to taste
Greek yoghurt as much as the quantity of dressing you have so far

Its was a tasty and healthy lunch!
To find out how I grew my fresh patch of salad greens at home check out my previous post "The First Harvest".

I hope to try making Caesar salad dressing next time. Do share if you have a recipients for that friends!

The First Harvest

This is the story of how a seed became a salad.


Seed : I was once in a dark place with other seeds just like me, I heard a lot of sound of other kinds of beings. A lot of time passed. I was bored and fell into a deep sleep. Then one day I heard a voice that I constanly heard ever since. It was the voice of Bue!!!

Seed:I was taken out of the dark seed packet and put in the tiny patch of earth in the form of pellets Bue had in her room. She coverd me with a thin blanket of earth and sprinkled some refreshing water over me. I felt cozy.





Bue: Such began the story of this lettuce / mesclun seed and along with it my story of 'indoor window-sill vegetable gardening'.

My first attempt at growing my own food turned out somewhat successfull. (I may write a post latter about what inspired me)  I have seen good growth from some seeds while I have not succeded in growing some kinds of seeds. (My Spinach crop was a fail, I m not growing that again untim I am motivated enought to try again)

Well here is what I did to get this harvest of salad greens successful at the very first try.

I bought a packet of seeds for lettuce and another for mesclum, a seed starter kit with pellets (which are the brown dehydrated mud pockets, ideal for growing seeds) and some organic fertilizer powder.
I added warm water to the pellets to expand them and planted a pinch of seeds in each pellet.

I covered them with a plastic case that ket th emoisture in and covered that with a cloth that kept the light out. (No flash photography allowed) I sprayed water from a clean spray every day and when I spotted the seeds sprouting I celebrated!!!!

I let the seeds grow in the same condition as until they all groew out to be an inch tall.Then moved them to a sunny window sill. This window sill gets sunlight from 12 noon to 5 in the evening. On cloudy days I left my room lights ON all night and pointed the lamp to face the plants (I saw that the plants turned toward it at night, so it means it helped). Oh and I built a mini-green house (which I may talk about in another post) to keep it warm and moist for my plants.




After I saw that the plants were ready for more soil, I transplanted them to a slightly bigger seed starter kit which allowed for water to be poured and absorbed from under the pot.



The plant showed constant growth and I though it lookd very pretty so after a month I moved it to my hall window-sill.



Today after a month and a week from seeding, I'm gonna start harvesting them.

I will let ya'll what salad I am going to make with these wonderfull plants that I am having for lunch tomorrow! Stay Tuned.

Hope you found my post interesting. If you are a gardener yourself, I welcome any advice!

Just like chef Gustav from Rattatouille says "Anybody can cook". I say "Anybody can grow their own food". Its not only healthy, it is soooo much fun!

Dig! Plant! Eat! Sustain!