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[woodjuice]

The organic veg and fruit box is starting to get really tasty. This week we have plums, a cute little melon, watercress, beetroot, lettuce, onions, carrots, bananas and potatoes. Everything is properly dirty and muddy, with a slug or two hiding behind a a large green cupped leaf

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[vondage]

Ooh, that's gorgeous! I love organic veg, but sometimes I chicken out and buy spinach from the supermarket, just because I cannot be doing with all that washing.

Could you tell me how you make your dahl, if it's not a secret? I've recently stopped ordering curries from the takeaway and started just ordering tarka dahl instead, as I always ended up eating all of that first so figured I might as well be honest! My stomach is dancing at the thought, but our lovely place closed down the other week, boo hoo.

Hope your food excitement and pleasure lasts a good while!

[woodjuice]

It's all exciting finding a heap of food on your doorstep. I have a couple of chickens, though, so I have to get there before they do

[treewitch]

Yum, I really like the sound of that. I am sure I have some red lentils festering in the cupboard and all those ingredients save for the garlic and chillies - if I thought my kids would eat it I would make it, but they are not so very keen on lentils. I may make it for myself!:)

[woodjuice]

Do! It's a real comfort food, especially with basmati rice. (Pilau is gorgeous, but takes more than 12 mins, so I get impatient!)

Did my letter get to you, miss? x

[sirtobybelch]

This is a breathtaking photo, did you take it?
are all the vegies and fruit from your farm?

I miss the garden we had back at our house in East Lansing. The joy of planting and then sneaking into it to pluck beans off the pole or get all dirty picking strawberries.

[woodjuice]

I did indeed take it. :) All the photos here are mine unless I say otherwise. This particular one was taken from my bedroom window.

All this organic produce is delivered from around the county - the only thing my amateur hands are growing are courgettes and a bunch of herbs, as I have far too little fruit and veg knoweldge to get really stuck in. We also have an apple and pear fruit tree at the bottom of the garden, but they're joyous in that they thrive whether you lavish them with attention or leave them to do their own thing. The cherry tree is a flowering one, not edible. The birds seem to give them a whirl, though.
The fields around us have LOTS of strawberries growing, but on a business scale, so you get the ugly poly-tunnels that go with that. Plus, the amount of times they spray them - it kinda freaks you out you're eating alien fruit. ;)

[sirtobybelch]

gezz that is not good, being so close to sprayed fruit, I don't get why people still do that. It is counter productive.

[strange__angels]

I'm very taken with this picture.
I wish I had skies that colour hanging over my house.

[woodjuice]

These skies always happen in summer when a gorgeous sunny day is ahead of us, so really, it was astounding I even saw this! I went into the woods yesterday with my umbrella and started doing a 'Singing in the Rain' dance with my brolly as a prop. This weather is making me crazy.