Archive for March, 2011

Organic Box 23rd March 2011

Monday, March 28th, 2011

Fruit: lemon, oranges, bananas, apples, kiwis, avocado
Vegetables: stir fry greens, oriental salad mix, kale, courgettes, red onions, mushrooms, potatoes, carrots, beetroot

Achievement of the week: have already eaten the kale in minestrone soup, thus avoiding its usual fate.
Recipe of the week: Truck-stop cabbage chop-chop. Ingredients:

1 pecket instant super noodles (any flavour),
Some shredded red cabbage,

Start to cook noodles in saucepan with water (not forgetting to add the little sachet of gunk) – add shredded cabbage. Stir well & serve with beer of choice.
Delicious.

Heard some very inspiring and entertaining  speakers this week. Mary Clear of www.incredible-edible-todmorden.co.uk (does what it says on the tin) and Tim Lang Prof. at City University – all round food expert and campaigner –  coiner of the term ‘food miles’. The art of public speaking is not dead (and the art of public growing and cooking is swelling like a prize marrow).

Organic Box 17th March 2011

Monday, March 21st, 2011

Fruit: kiwis, bananas, apples, grapefruit, blood oranges
Veg: leeks, spring greens, oriental salad leaves, wild garlic leaves ‘Ramsons’, parsnips, carrots, red onions, Romano potatoes, red cabbage

Romano potatoes are particularly good for making the quark keulchen, if you haven’t already tried them.  They are great for breakfast!

Last night we had a large Salad Paysanne using the oriental leaves, adding in some Ramsons, and topping it with cheese cubes, garlic croutons and crispy fried pancetta.  Delicious!

I’m also planning to make a Beef, leek and lentil soup and hopefully a prawn stir fry with some more of the ramsons as they are so versatile.

Organic Box 10th March 2011

Thursday, March 10th, 2011

fruit: Spartan apples, bananas, clementines, kiwi, kumquats
veg: Savoy cabbage, cauliflower, oriental salad, stir fry greens, beetroot, mushrooms, red onions, carrots, Romano potatoes

I love kumquats!  They are really odd in that their skin is sweet and the flesh is sour, so you pretty much have to eat them with their skins on to really enjoy the extreme taste.

I love getting all these greens at the moment, but we are still stuck a bit in winter mode so made floret pasta bake, beetroot and feta salad (lovely piled into pitta pockets with some toasted seeds on top), and a minestrone stew.  We stir fried the greens and had them with some baked fish.

Organic Box 2nd March 2011

Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011

fruit: pears, oranges, apples, bananas, avocado
veg: onions, courgettes, celeriac, parsnips, crown prince squash, stir fry greens, oriental leafy salad

I’m playing catch up with the blog again as work, painting, the baby massage poster business and small people take up all my time.

We made a courgette risotto (again!), a nepalese curry with the squash and parsnips, and a lovely chicken noodle stir fry with the greens.