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Lovely stuff - rhubarb, asparagus, melon, broccoli, bananas, orange, tomatoes, pointy cabbage, courgettes. From Riverford.
So:
We can have the melon, bananas and oranges for breakfast.
Yum!
Tags: fruit, menus, riverford, veg
This is actually perlmonger’s lunch: I loathe raw tomatoes, don’t care for strong cheddar (that’s unpasteurised organic there), and I’m not that fond of kabanos.
But I do always bite the end off his sossidge [fnaar].
Tags: lunch, perlmonger
Somehow, we have acquired a lot of fruit. We’re not good at eating it, and Riverford keep bringing it. We’ve been eating porridge for breakfast through the winter, mostly, but I think we must now attack the fruit backlog. Or possibly open a market stall.
And so - breakfast.
Tags: fruit, riverford
We popped into the village off-licence this afternoon to pay for our wine. All most civilised - we ordered We it via e-mail, have paid for it, and they’ll drop it round later!
And on the counter were Natural Licorice Logs. I haven’t eaten licorice in years, and we picked up a log, and have just scoffed it.
How delicious - I shall be buying a bag of those next time I’m in. RJ’s Soft Eating Natural Licorice Logs, should you be interested.
Tags: sweets
Working at home, we generally have a pot of soup on the go during the colder months. However, it’s almost May, and it’s not *meant* to be colder now, but this morning it was.
So I looked in the fridge, and found a motley assortment of rather weary veg: some very tired carrots, a swede, a leek, some celery. Into the trusty Magimix they went. Then I went a bit stir crazy, and chopped up the 3/4 cucumber and the elderly spring onions.
Into a BIG pan with some olive oil, to sweat down for a bit, while I investigated the freezer for stock. I found a box of gravy left from pork with pears and apricots (I never throw food away!). That got nuked in the microwave, then I added about a mug of lentils, a carton of creamed tomatoes (keep this in the cupboard, they’re so useful), and about 1.5 litres of water.
Add sea salt and black pepper, bring to a boil, simmer for - oh - an hour or so. It made a very nice lunch, but like all soup, it’ll be much nicer tomorrow :)
Tags: soupWe have had a trying morning, involving a web server running out of steam, and a Dishwasher Incident requiring me to hotfoot it shortly to B&Q to get some drain rods. Also, I failed to make any soup for this week’s lunches, as it was dead warm yesterday.
To console ourselves, we stuck a couple of part baked baguettes in the oven. For mine, I hacked off some Red Leicester cheese, and some home cooked gammon. It’s worth mentioning here that I Cannot Carve, or slice bread. And then I hewed some chunks off a cucumber, and realised that really, I’d need a ladder to eat the baguette if I put the cucumber in, so I had it on the side.
And then - oh the shame - I slathered the cheese and ham with Heinz Salad Cream. It’s wrong, but it tastes so good …
Tags: horror, lunch
Melon is one of those foods I can take or leave. Don’t get me wrong - it’s OK - but it always seems a lot of effort for not much reward.
However, we try hard not to waste things*, and Riverford brought us a melon in last week’s box. It has sat in the fridge since, and looked at me in an accusing manner, so this morning perlmonger chopped it up and we had it for breakfast. It was nice, but I wouldn’t rush out to get another, that’s all I’m sayin’ …
* To our shame, we left the avocadoes languishing, till the point where, I’m pretty sure, I can now sling them on the compost heap. So at least they won’t be entirely wasted; they’ll provide a home for the slow worms and the rats!
Tags: fruit. riverford
