Vegetable Box Update

My accumulating leftovers, both amount-left-over from previous box and leftovers of cooked meals, lead me to log a 'holiday' with the service, so I got a three week gap between deliveries instead of two.

( What was in box 3 )

What that all went into:

- Endives and lettuce (box 2) and half a pack of beets (box 3) into endive, beet and brie salad. The endives roasted in balsamic vinegar and olive oil; the beets precooked, and the whole thing assembled cold.
- Celery leaves, the older garlic stem, and assorted veg-ends went into making another 1.5 L of stock.
- A number of kiwis were eaten mixed with créme vanille
- The bananas went on breakfasts
- half a zucchini from box 2 was diced and fried with mushroom and capsicum and garlic powder, to make Vegetable Content For Tortilla Wraps
- The melon was in fact a rockmelon, and provided a. morning tea and b. great enjoyment to the fruit flies that haunt the compost bin on my balcony
- Half the garlic, the fresher garlic stem, the remaining flat beans, and some celery went into a garlic and pepper chicken stir-fry, along with some capsicum I had purchased
- some of the tomatoes joined some supermarket tomatoes in roast tomato gnocchi (this time with bacon and feta cheese)
- The broccoli florets, rubbed in olive oil and paprika, were baked along with merguez sausage and some potato balls with gruyère cheese
- Some of the stock made a batch of french-style lentils, which then joined some beets in two servings of beet and feta salad
- The fennel, some tinned chickpeas, the end of the celery, and one of the zuchinis, along with stock, made a pilaf
- some of the cucumber made tzatziki
- Potatoes, carrot and zucchini joined sweet potato that I had bought in spiced vegetable bake, without the couscous accompaniment. Ate it with pilaf, topped with feta, and some of it was also served with merguez sausage
- The last of the beets, some carrot, the remaining garlic, and two potatoes went into lentil borscht. That made so much that I had to freeze some, undoing all my good freezer-emptying work.


I also made pan-fried gnocchi with leek, mushroom, and brown-butter sage, but nothing in that one came from the veggie box. Along the way I consumed two frozen ziplock baggies of Mystery Curry, one of which was nicer than the other.

What is in Box 4
- About eight flat white peaches
- four bananas
- two lemons
- a probably-rockmelon
- Five tomatoes
- a bunch of small radishes
- three ... green onions? the long green ones but with a bulb at the end
- a lot of potatoes
- a PRODIGOUS amount of carrots
- five or six stalks of swiss chard (ooh, swiss chard! Never actually cooked with it before)
- another cucumber

Plus, left over from Box 3, I still have half a cucumber, and from boxes 2 AND 3, many potatoes. And some apples, and I think one orange.

Clearly I need to prioritise potato consumption! And carrots. Carrot cake, and a potato bake/gratin thing with chard in it, will clearly have to happen.

That was the end of my four-box subcription. I'm going to give this box three weeks, as well, and order another subscription for delivery starting either on the 6th or the 11th - either way, testing out what happens if I'm not home, as I have Other City commitments those days.