You eat them ....
Sandy and I were in the kitchens today doing another one on one cooking class so as we had them all to ourselves so the questions are coming thick and fast.
It's been great as the cook here is again totally Italian and non English speaking so through the translator the 25 year old son of the owner of the Masseria we are getting all the southern tips.
I wander off down a few steps to see a young lady and guy cleaning what looks like a pile of weeds. They called them portulacas, hmmmm so thats what they are ...
But I still call them weeds as they are not the pretty flowering ones we propagate back home but the wild ones that grow rampant in early spring that are a real pest.
These are weeds to us but here in this arid climate are a great replacement for salad greens at the end of the season when it's just too hot for other salad greens to survive.
So what to do with them ... it's the typical marination of olive oil, lemon juice and salt and pepper and well the taste is not bad so when we are back home I will give them a try. Proberly won't be on the menu of The Retreat, but you never know what the future may bring.
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