I am missing being able to go out to the garden and just pick whatever I want for the pot. All the seedlings I put in are growing and I could probably nick a few lettuce leaves but the spinach and silver beet will be a while yet. Every year at this lull time I try silverbeet from the supermarket and every year after I’ve steamed it, I take a mouthful and then sit and look at the rest. So with apologies to Eddie deLange & Louis Alter who wrote the song and to Louis Armstrong who made it so popular, here’s another version.
Do you know what it means to miss leafy greens
To look at your plate and sigh
I know that its wrong
But the feeling’s getting stronger
Everything seems awry
Been listening to blues
and wondering who
thought this silver beet was okay
Cost me a bomb and most of it is useless
And what is left tastes like glue
Lettuces and rocket,
parsley in my pocket
Wattie’s frozen – or canned?
Maybe rice? Would make it nice?
Or pasta with cheese and ham?
Do you know what it means to miss leafy greens
To look at your plate and sigh
I know that its wrong
but the feeling’s getting stronger
Oh how I miss leafy greens – (out of the garden, oooh yes…)
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