Kale.

I learnt last year that to ignore this is bad, because it's only going to get chewier. Serving suggestions welcome - it may be helpful to know I also have:

calabrese (broccoli)
1/2 red cabbage
1/2 swede
tomatoes
onion
little gem lettuce
endless carrots
leek
red pepper

By tomorrow I'm likely to have some bacon and cheese, and imagine the ( Read more... )

Good news - the veg box arrived as I was rigging up the back gate to make it accessible, so I can go to the doctors without worrying about that ( Read more... )

This week I can look forward to:

Red potatoes
White onion
beetroot
1lb new potatoes
1/2 bunch carrots
1/2 savoy cabbage
sweetcorn
bunch rosemary
1/2 swede
romanesco
sprout top
little gem lettuce
baking potato"Sprout tops" are curiously resistent to Google (top recipes for sprouts rather than recipes for sprout tops come up, despite ( Read more... )

It was 10.05 when the doobell went, and I assumed it was my order of Ecrits:The Director's Cut rather than the veg box as quote we deliver some time after lunch unquote. The little gem provided lunch, and I think the thyme will go with a potato salad. I believe I can treat sprout tops like cabbage or spinach - a ginger stir fry tomorrow. It's a ( Read more... )

I've cheated and looked up this week's box:

1/2 cauliflower
red potatoes
red onion
1lb salad potatoes
leeks
parsnips
srpout stalk
bunch thyme
little gem lettuce
1/2 celeriac
sprout topCeleriac is the unknown quantity. I will have cabbage and potatoes left, but I'm out so many nights this week it's not been conducive to home cooking. ( Read more... )

... I have my first veg box.

Red potatoes
2 baking potatoes
white onion
1/2 savoy cabbage
sweetcorn
bunch rosemary
1/2 red cabbage
butternut squash
1/2 bunch carrots
1/2 swede tomatoes were substituted
1/2 bunch spring onions

(and a rouge rogue tomato ( Read more... )