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Organic Box 30th Sept 2009

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

fruit: conference pears, worcester apples, bananas, black lavelle grapes, mango
veg: carrots, onions, nicola potatoes, tomatoes, butternut squash, cavolo nero, aubergine, chillis

What an exciting box… now it really is beginning to feel like autumn and its not just the chilly weather!  The butternut squash is definitely going to be stuffed with mascarpone and sundried tomatoes, I’ll post the recipe later this week as it really is 5 mins of prep for an absolutely stunning dinner party dish.

The aubergine, tomatoes and chilli will become an aubergine pasta bake and I’m planning to create a new recipe with the cavolo nero, so watch this space!

The potatoes are so lovely and thin skinned, they just have to be served with butter and black pepper or maybe in a greek potato salad (with artichoke hearts, eggs and frozen broad beans)… we shall see.  The carrots will be served German style this week with some breadcrumbed fish and salad leaves.

Hopefully the babies will start to leave us a pear or two to poach and have with chocolate sauce and ice cream (fairly unlikely but a girl can dream)…. what a culinary week we have in store.

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German Buttered Carrots

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

Carrots with Tops

5 large carrots (or the equivalent in little ones!)
1 onion
tbsp butter
tbsp olive oil
1 vegetable stock cube
1 tbsp flour
1 cup water

Peel the carrots (if you like them peeled) and chop into rounds.  Finely chop the onion.  Add all the ingredients to a saucepan and stir well.  Heat gently for around 40 mins with the lid on, stirring occasionally.  If it gets dry or starts to stick, add a bit more water and keep a close eye on it.  Its ready when the carrots are done as you like them and are surrounded by a thick buttery sauce.

This is a fantastic, quick and easy dish.  Non carrot eating toddlers (and grandparents) tend to like it.  Serve as a side dish when you have rice or mash based meals as the carrots are tender and come in a lovely buttery sauce.  Delicious!

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A fantastic way of getting rid of fruit fly…

Saturday, September 26th, 2009

 fruit fly

I’ve just been told the neatest way of getting rid of the pesky flies.  You get a jar or beaker and add some vinegar, sugar and a drop of washing up liquid.  Leave near your fruit.  Works like a dream as they all get attracted, then can’t fly off as the washing up liquid breaks the surface tension.

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Organic Box 23rd Sept 2009

Friday, September 25th, 2009

Ripe Mango Picture

Fruit: black grapes, pears, mango, bananas, apples
veg: sweetcorn, mushrooms, tomatoes, leeks, carrots, red oinions, potatoes

This is quite a busy weekend for us, so I’m going to try and cook as much of the veg as possible ahead of Sunday to free up fridge space for Champagne!  The mushrooms and leeks will go into a mushroom barley bake, the sweetcorn has already been eaten by the babies, boiled then stripped from the cobs and mixed with butter, cheese and pasta sprials.

The red onions and tomatoes will be eaten as a salad, combined with a little feta and maybe some puy lentils.  The potatoes I have earmarked for a fish pie on Saturday night.  Sadly the black grapes were too squashed, small and pippy to make much of so they have had to go as the fruit flies were driving me mad. 

We did eat the mango this morning for breakfast, and it was delicious.  Mangos never seem to hang around long enough to make into a serious dish, though I love them in a smoked trout salad, or with cherry tomatoes, chillis and red onions in a salsa to eat with tortilla chips etc.  I am hoping to manage pear and gorgonzola pizza’s next week whilst the nursery looks after my charges: that’s if the pears are still there as the baby seems to be very quick at dispatching them!

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