Winter recipe round up
January -February shares this year ran from week 2 to 9 and included kales and cabbage of many colours, rainbow chard, squash, beetroot, leek, celeriac, parnsip, onions, raddichio, mustardy salads, spinach, celery leaf… amongst other things. Plenty of variation and potential. What were we making these veg into?
Week 2 - Frosty first harvest this morning. Enjoy the sweetened veg, just had some lentil stew a bit like this but with leek n all!
Week 3 - Interesting winter salad recipe with kale and apple here. Nice to have bit of crunchy fresh stuff in January!
Week 4 - Interesting braised cabbage, bean and apple recipe here. I've got a tin of those big beans somewhere that will go nicely with a cabbage! I also really enjoy a roasted whole cabbage, cut into quarters so its just falling apart. outer leaves get nice and crispy and inner leaves tender.
Week 5 - I have been mostly eating beans, topped with anything green this week. Looking forward to my dark green leafy savoy which I will definitely roast in my handy oven with timer so the outer leaves get crispy. I had banned myself from making kale crisps, as used to forget an turn them into carbon crisps (still feel bad even though I have a whole field to pick some more from) but this oven timer may help me get back into them.
Week 6 - I want to try eating this leek coleslaw recipe this week, as that sunshine tempted me to get the plough out (too soon). A Chinese New Year stir fried leeks recipe also timely and looks tasty! I agree with the author of that last blog post, the leeks taste the best around now having sweetened up in the cold.
Week 7 - This week I want to top up my sauerkraut jar(s) after depleting my supply. Vegetable fermenter Sandor Katz explains in the first 40 seconds of this video how to, and the rest of the video for more detail! White cabbage in the shares this week surely perfect for that, good to get a bit of crunchy fermented food for more nutrients in the winter.
Week 8 - Beetroot- I temporarily forgot the sweet recipes you can make with beetroot, like this brownie from local Sneaky Veg. Allsorts of sweet ideas for beetroot on there actually! I am definitely a more savoury food maker (wudnt call meself a cook or chef haha) so these things and their washing up sometimes pass me by. Worth a look though!
Week 9 - I want to try and put my sweet brown onions to the front in a French onion soup this week. Like the look of that floating cheese bread island in this recipe! Yum