Vegetable Box Update
Jul. 16th, 2020 12:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
highlyeccentricMy 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.
A small head of celery
3-4 zucchini
A cucumber
Another lettuce of some sort
A fresh garlic
More potatoes
Two shrink-wrapped packs of precooked beets
4-5 tomatoes
About six carrots
About 4 apples
Quite a lot of rhubarb
Something that looks like a rockmelon from the outside but might not be inside (melons are weird here)
Plus, left over from Box 2:
1 orange
4 apples
8 kiwi fruit
Half a banana
2 endives
1 fennel
1 zucchini
A handful of the long flat peas
Half a lettuce
The garlic stem
Most of the potatoes
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.
A small head of celery
3-4 zucchini
A cucumber
Another lettuce of some sort
A fresh garlic
More potatoes
Two shrink-wrapped packs of precooked beets
4-5 tomatoes
About six carrots
About 4 apples
Quite a lot of rhubarb
Something that looks like a rockmelon from the outside but might not be inside (melons are weird here)
Plus, left over from Box 2:
1 orange
4 apples
8 kiwi fruit
Half a banana
2 endives
1 fennel
1 zucchini
A handful of the long flat peas
Half a lettuce
The garlic stem
Most of the potatoes
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.
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Date: 2020-07-17 12:09 am (UTC)When I bake potatoes, I do a bunch at one time, eating them throughout the week by reheating and changing up the toppings.
I also like potatoes in thick slices, tossed in oil and spices, and baked on a cookie sheet.
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Date: 2020-07-17 07:02 pm (UTC)Plus I don't actually like jacket potatoes... I found a recipe for something called 'breakfast potatoes', which sound like your baked slices except cubes. I might do a batch of them for use as either breakfast or lunch.