But use the flowers in your salads and collect seeds for future plantings. Harvest To harvest simply pick the young leaves and the plant will keep generating new ones for months. Older leaves are a bit tougher and hotter. The flowers are small, white with dark centers and can be used in the salad for a light piquant flavor. How to Stor e Rinse the leaves in cool water and dry on paper toweling.
Wrap leaves tightly in plastic or a zip lock bag.
Best if used within two days. Please visit Ken's site La Cucina Eoliana E Siciliana . Extra virgin olive oil Freshly ground pepper Directions Loosely arrange the arugula on the bottom of a shallow salad bowl, and then add some ground pepper and drizzle some olive oil on top. Cut off the stems and leafy tops of the fennel, then finely slice the fennel into thin rounds and spread the slices over the arugula. Pour the lemon juice over the fennel and arugula and drizzle with more olive oil and grind more pepper on top.