{"id":6201,"date":"2014-06-02T10:57:14","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T14:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=6201"},"modified":"2014-06-02T10:57:14","modified_gmt":"2014-06-02T14:57:14","slug":"tender-is-the-greens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=6201","title":{"rendered":"Tender is the greens"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"A-pressure-1\"<\/a><\/p>\n

A serious weapon that every kitchen needs, for wielding against hard-to-cook foods, is a pressure cooker. I wouldn’t know how to cook garbanzo beans without one (and we eat a lot of hummus). Lately I have turned the pressure cooker toward the problem of tender mustard greens.<\/p>\n

Tender mustard is a desideratum of every gardener. Picking the greens very young might help. But one can’t waste all those mature greens, can one? Twenty-five minutes in the pressure cooker and the greens are perfect.<\/p>\n

\"A-pressure-2\"<\/a>
\nMustard greens<\/em><\/p>\n

\"A-pressure-3\"<\/a>
\nA squash bloom<\/em><\/p>\n

\"A-pressure-4\"<\/a>
\nA humble turnip<\/em><\/p>\n

\"A-pressure-5\"<\/a>
\nLettuce, approaching maturity<\/em><\/p>\n

\"A-pressure-6\"<\/a>
\nA cabbage, which will soon use its one-way ticket to the kitchen<\/em><\/p>\n

\"A-pressure-7\"<\/a>
\nMy family heirloom beans<\/em><\/p>\n

\"A-pressure-8\"<\/a>
\nThe garden on June 2<\/em><\/p>\n

\"A-pressure-9\"<\/a>
\nThe first day lilies, with thousands to follow<\/em><\/p>\n

\"A-pressure-10\"<\/a>
\nA wildflower patch<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A serious weapon that every kitchen needs, for wielding against hard-to-cook foods, is a pressure cooker. I wouldn’t know how to cook garbanzo beans without one (and we eat a lot of hummus). Lately I have turned the pressure cooker toward the problem of tender mustard greens. Tender mustard is a desideratum of every gardener. … Continue reading “Tender is the greens”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-sustainable-living"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6201"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6214,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6201\/revisions\/6214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}