When it comes to the world of fruit and veg, are you a risk-taker or do you play it safe?
Do you eagerly seize the mystery vegetable in your veg box and set about working out how to use it? Or does it linger, guiltily, at the back of the fridge, until it sneaks its way to the compost bin, shrivelled and mouldy?
When we first started getting a vegetable box delivery, I was a guilty-fridge-user, trying to avoid the reminder of my failure as a budding green-girlie.
My worst culprit wasn’t exotic. It was the common cabbage. I thought I hated the stuff. School dinners, hospital corridors. You name it, I had cabbage baggage…
Luckily I realised it was all because I didn’t know how to cook it properly. There are now plenty of delicious recipes for cabbage and its friends on Veg Box Recipes. Some of my (am I really going to say this?!) favourites are:
Enough of my confessions: where do you stand? Which vegetables do you sneakily avoid? And what do you do when something bizarre crops up in your veg box, farm shop or at the farmers’ market?
If you come across a stranger in your veg box and aren’t sure where to start, our Vegetable Picture Gallery should help you identify it and work out what to do with it.
You never know, you might even enjoy it!
Clare
