Our first vegetable box*
16 July 2009
We took delivery of our first organic vegetable box this week — in it were cherry tomatoes, carrots, an oddly pointy cabbage, round courgette (at least I hope that’s what it is), broccoli, basil, and some fruit. At £11 it ain’t exactly the cheapest, but I’m of the opinion that the quality of the veg is enough to make up for the price comparison with, say, Asda.
For starters, I’ve never tasted carrots as amazing as these IN MY LIFE. As a child I ate carrots (grudgingly) because I was born in the year of the rabbit — seriously. I tried to take to one of Kristen’s favourite snacks, raw baby carrots, but it just wasn’t happening. But these carrots, oh man, they have just the right amount of sweetness when cooked and it’s so fresh I’m not sure I can look at a supermarket carrot ever again.
I took this photo just in case the dish turned out tasty. We’re big fans of pancetta, even though this one was pretty fatty (I like the fat, Neil hates it).
And that’s how it looked at the end. It’s made up of pancetta, carrots, shallots, sweet orange peppers, pointed cabbage and The Indestructible Chives. We added garlic pepper and dried chilli flakes, too. It was pretty decent.
* As opposed to vagetable.
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