Wild garlic and radishes in Camel CSA’s veg boxes

Spring has finally sprung! Our volunteer picking and packing team have been foraging wild garlic leaves to go in this week’s veg boxes.

In all the boxes:-
*wild garlic (foraged locally)
*radish bunch
*spring onions
*bean sprouts
cauliflower (Restharrow Farm, Trebetherick)
purple sprouting broccoli (Restharrow)
potatoes (St Lawrence Farm, Bodmin)

Standard boxes also have:-
*parsley
*rainbow chard
leeks (Restharrow)

Red Russian kale in Camel CSA’s Cornish veg boxes

Seasonal local food recipe No.380 – Nigel Slater’s bubble and swede

Some of our veg box members are getting restless. At the end of a long, hard winter they’re finding it hard to think of new ways to serve up the humble swede in our veg boxes.

Food writer Nigel Slater says this vegetarian dish is perfect for a warming midweek supper. He adds: “I am also tempted to introduce some crumbled sausage meat, fried until almost crisp in a shallow pan or, better still, a bit of black pudding.”

Serves: 2

Preparation time: 10 minutes
Cooking time: one hour

Ingredients
750g swede
2 medium leeks
60g butter
salt and black pepper

Method
Peel the swede, then cut it into large chunks. Place the swede in a steamer basket over a pan of boiling water, then cook it for about 30 minutes until soft.

Set the oven at 200C/gas mark 6. Meanwhile, trim 2 medium-sized leeks, slice them and rinse thoroughly in cold running water. Melt the butter in a pan, add the leeks and let them cook for 20 minutes or so until they are totally tender.

When the swede is soft, crush it with a fork, vegetable masher or wooden spoon, and season generously with salt and black pepper. Fold the cooked leeks and the melted butter into the mashed swede, then spoon into an ovenproof dish. Bake the mixture for about 35-40 minutes, until the top is lightly crisp.

Coriander and parsley in our weekly veg boxes

In all the boxes:-
*coriander or *parsley (Camel CSA)
cauliflower (Restharrow Farm, Trebetherick)
swede (Restharrow)
savoy cabbage (Restharrow)
onions (Restharrow)
carrots (Total Produce)
potatoes ‘Electra’ (Burlerrow Farm, St Mabyn)

Standard boxes also have:-
extra potatoes
*oriental salad leaves (Camel CSA)
beetroot (Restharrow)
leeks (Restharrow)

* = grown to organic principles. Please wash all produce.

Try more than 350 ways of preparing vegetables on the recipes page on our website.

Polytunnels protect Camel CSA’s salad leaves in the cold

It’s a good thing some of our veg is grown in the shelter of the polytunnels!

In all the boxes:-
*sprouted mung beans (Camel CSA)
*oriental salad leaves (Camel CSA)
*turnips (Camel CSA)
*bay leaves (Camel CSA)
cauliflower (Restharrow Farm, Trebetherick)
beetroot (Restharrow)
onions (Restharrow)
potatoes ‘Electra’ (Burlerrow Farm, St Mabyn)

Standard boxes also have:-
extra potatoes
*rainbow chard (Camel CSA)
*baby leeks (Camel CSA)
crab apple and chilli jelly (Camel CSA)

* = grown to organic principles. Please wash all produce.

Try more than 350 ways of preparing vegetables on the recipes page on our website.

Winter salad leaves in Camel CSA’s weekly veg boxes

They survived the cold snap! We all have oriental salad leaves from our polytunnels in this week’s veg boxes from north Cornwall.

In all the boxes:-
*oriental salad leaves (Camel CSA)
cauliflower (Restharrow Farm, Trebetherick)
Celtic cabbage (Restharrow)
leeks (Restharrow)
beetroot (Restharrow)
Jerusalem artichokes (Restharrow)
swede (Restharrow)
potatoes ‘Electra’ (Burlerrow Farm, St Mabyn)

Standard boxes also have:-
extra potatoes
*kale (Camel CSA)
*swede (Camel CSA)
onions (Restharrow)

* = grown to organic principles. Please wash all vegetables.

Try more than 350 ways of preparing vegetables on the recipes page on our website.

There’s a winter flavour to our weekly veg boxes

The Big Freeze continues to slow growth in the polytunnels so the veg selection in this week’s boxes has a decidedly winter flavour.

In all our veg boxes this week:-
*Jerusalem artichokes (Mark Norman, Bodmin)
cauliflower (Restharrow Farm, Trebetherick)
beetroot (Restharrow)
onions (Restharrow)
swede (Restharrow)
purple sprouting broccoli (Total Produce)
potatoes ‘Electra’ (Burlerrow Farm, St Mabyn)

Standard boxes also have:-
extra potatoes
*parsley (Camel CSA)
Celtic cabbage (Restharrow)
leeks (Restharrow)

* = grown to organic principles. Please wash all vegetables.

Try more than 350 ways of preparing vegetables on the recipes page on our website.

Bean sprouts and oriental leaves for Chinese New Year

We’ve all got a share of bean sprouts and mixed oriental leaves in this week’s veg boxes to mark the start of Chinese New Year.

In all our veg boxes this week:-
*sprouted mung beans (Camel CSA)
*oriental salad leaves (Camel CSA)
*bunched turnips (Camel CSA)
cauliflower (Restharrow Farm, Trebetherick)
Celtic cabbage (Restharrow)
leeks (Restharrow)
potatoes ‘Electra’ (Burlerrow Farm, St Mabyn)

Standard boxes also have:-
extra potatoes
*spring onions (Camel CSA)
*carrots (Camel CSA)
*rainbow chard (Camel CSA)

* = grown to organic principles. Please wash all vegetables carefully.

Stuck for ideas? Try more than 350 wonderful ways of preparing seasonal vegetables on the recipes page on our website.

Standard seasonal produce in this week’s veg boxes

The recent cold, damp, dark weather conditions have slowed the growth of our own home-grown veg, so there are more bought-in items this week. Roll on spring and some more warm sunny days!

In all our veg boxes this week:-
*Jerusalem artichokes (Mark Norman, Bodmin)
cauliflower (Restharrow Farm, Trebetherick)
red onions (Restharrow)
swede (Restharrow)
savoy cabbage (Restharrow)
parsnips (Total Produce)
potatoes ‘Electra’ (Burlerrow Farm, St Mabyn)

Standard boxes also have:-
extra potatoes
*purple sprouting broccoli (*Camel CSA/Total Produce)
leeks (Restharrow)
beetroot (Restharrow)

* = grown to organic principles. Please wash all vegetables carefully.

Try more than 350 ways of preparing vegetables on the recipes page on our website.

Bunched new carrots in Camel CSA’s weekly veg boxes

We’ve all got a bunch of new carrots grown over winter in the polytunnel plus a jar of our own chilli and crab apple jelly.

In all our veg boxes this week:-
*new carrots (Camel CSA)
*chilli and crab apple jelly (Camel CSA)
*sprouted mung beans (Camel CSA)
leeks (Restharrow Farm, Trebetherick)
cauliflower (Restharrow)
savoy cabbage (Restharrow)
potatoes ‘Electra’ (Burlerrow Farm, St Mabyn)

Standard boxes also have:-
extra potatoes
*coriander / chillies (Camel CSA)
beetroot (Restharrow)
red onions (Restharrow)

* = grown to organic principles. Please wash all vegetables carefully.

Try these ways of preparing new carrots on the recipes page on our website:-
Honey-glazed carrots
Baby carrots with lemon and thyme