fruit: nectarines, peaches, bananas, plums
veg: tomatoes, stir fry leaves, spinach, chilli peppers, mushrooms, sweetcorn, carrots, onions, Accent potatoes

It is already dark and gloomy outside and a chill is in the air.  We’ve already started using the box tonight by cooking up a [1] harvest vegetable soup with a left over green pepper from last week and some of the potatoes, carrots and onions from this week.  The stock came from yesterday’s chicken carcass and we’ll be using some of the left over chicken tomorrow night in a noodle stir-fry, together with the bag of stir fry leaves and some chilli.

I love fresh sweetcorn and it needs to be used as soon as possible as once picked it steadily becomes starchy and less sweet.  We just boil it in plenty of salted water and then slather on a chilli-lime butter to re-create a great thai snack we enjoyed whilst travelling.

Finally the mushrooms and tomatoes will be excused from all other cookery duties in order to attend the Great British Weekend Grill-up, which is an institution in our house.