What's in my organic fruit & veg box today!

AlwaysHappy

Thanks, wow guys, that was quick. Think its perhaps a bit late now to start cooking, will get my pinny out in the morning and see how I get on. Am a little dubious about the fennel - got drunk once on pernod and black and have never got over the aniseed repeating itself (if you know what I mean), the others sound promising, and I will try it - I'm probably 20 years older now (sadly), and you never know. I'll let you know!

pigpen

zara.. they sound delish.. I got an aubergine in my box this week too so I shall be stealing that there recipe.. thank you!! That should feed my brood for the day. We'll be having piggy chops though... or left over piggy from today if there is enough.

Gena

I love both of them, though I don't use them very often. You can roast them in olive oil (separately if you're not sure if you'll like the fennel).

catznine

You could cut the aubergine into chunks, cut the fennel into quarters, same with the oinions and potatoes, pop into a ovenproof dish with the mushrooms and tomatoes, drizzle with olive oil, sprinkle with some itatlian herbs or sprigs of thyme and basil and oven roast until cooked through. I have often done this when presented with similar ingredients in my veg boxes.

frugalmumof4

hi,
firstly i was mumof4, cant get into my account, so hence the new name!

usually i make a meal plan and buy vegetables that i need.

This week i decided to buy a large fruit and vegetable box.
The vegetables in my box are:
large bag curly kale
sprouts
cabbage
swede
6 carrots
2 onions
potatoes
2 tomatoes
1 cauliflower
1 large leek

There are 6 of us, 2 adults, 3 teenagers and a 3 year old.

We have plenty of chopped tomatoes, baked beans, chickpeas, kidney beans, red lentils, yellow split peas, pasta, rice, eggs, flour, butter.

If any one has an meal ideals and that will incorporate the ingredients and feed us for a week of main meals that will be great! im off to hunt on the waitrose recipe pages for inspiration!.

must be vegetarian

angelavdavis

How about some winter soups?

Chunky vegetable - Mixed veg plus some pulses and herbs in some chicken stock. Cook until soft, keep back a few spoons of veg to put back in the soup, and then whizz up with a hand held food processor, adding the chunky veg at the end.

Or minestrone soup? Cook as for veg soup, but add broken up spaghetti and some tinned tomatoes to the stock.

TigersEye

How about a Vegetable Stew, Vegetable Pie or if you had some Vegetable Suet, Vegetable Casserole with Dumplings

frugalmumof4

thankyou for input so far, i have been frantically typing into google!as i need to know what im cooking tomorrow, so here's what i have come up with so far!

spiced vegetable with lentils
cabbage piroskhi
cauliflower and pasta bake
bubble and squeak cakes
minestrone soup with hm bread
carrot, swede and potato curry with rice

Im having trouble with the curly kale, if anyone can think of something to do with that, other than feed to someones rabbit!!!im hoping its isnt going to taste like swiss chard we tried that last week, and didnt enjoy it at all! thinking maybe it could go into a fritatta??anyone ever done that before!

suggestion of dumplings were good, can i have a recipe, i can cook it on top of the spiced vegetables! yummy!

TigersEye

They sound really lovely dishes, yum, being a veggie myself I love to try new and unusual dishes:beer:

morwenna

How about finely shredding the curly kale and adding as a pizza topping? I would remove the stalks and use them up (the less stringy bits) chopped up in a soup in the SC. IHTH