It's coming to the end of the Organic Vegetable Box Scheme season, and I've decided to celebrate the return of my computer (and thus photos on the blog!!) with a review of some of the fantastic boxes Niamh has delivered from Maybloom Farm this summer.
Every week there is something new and exciting, along with the old reliables - we couldn't survive without a good big bag of potatoes!!!
I used that cabbage in a yummy coleslaw - cabbage, carrots, a tiny bit of onion all shredded, I then moistened the vegetables with a french dressing and then added some home made mayonnaise and greek yogurt. This combination makes a nice tasty light salad (I hate claggy coleslaw!)
Some fantastic pea pods in the corner - earlier in the summer I just hid in a corner and ate them all by myself!!!!!!
Later in the summer I shelled them and steamed with some tender stem broccoli, and served with some lemon zest and butter.
I have to say that these were the nicest strawberries I have ever had - they tasted intensely strawberryish (!) real reliving your childhood taste memories stuff!
Another delicious week - those french beans were fantastic sauteed with a little panchetta and garlic.
I cannot tell you how delicious Niamh's fresh garlic is - and the fact that it is so incredibly good for you makes me feel less guilty about the amount of Caesar salad dressing I ate!!!!
I had read that really, really fresh corn was miles better than the stuff you buy - we were sitting down munching this corn with salt and butter 90 minutes after it was picked!!!!!! Superb!
This little large beauty was the first white aubergine (eggplant) I had ever tasted, really delicious smooth and full of flavour. I made a deconstructed ratatouille with it (primarily because different members of the family don't different components of the ratatouille, and therefore deconstructed we could all choose the bits we liked!) I roasted the aubergine with thyme and olive oil. The onions with a tiny amount of rosemary. The tomatoes with basil and the mushrooms with some pesto, and finally the peppers with plenty of pepper - a real success. Talk about your 5 a day on a plate!!
The picture doesn't do the dish justice - but I had to make sure that the different components didn't touch!!!
The onion didn't even make it onto the plate for fear that the juices might contaminate the mushrooms!!!!!!
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