More odd veggies

Categories: food-and-cooking

Date: 16 February 2009 00:54:10

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It's not your screen - the carrots are really yellow - and although one beet is a normal red colour, the other one is white. The borscht I made still turned everything red.

We've also had sprouting broccoli - not purple, just green - but purple potatoes (from the supermarket, not the veg box), and this week, some tiny cauliflowers, about 3in across. Too small to be out wihout their mothers. I was very mean and put them in a curry, along with some radishes I couldn't think what to do with.

The avocados are builing up - I have two ripe ones in the fridge and one huge one ripening in the fruit bowl. I think I'm going to make avocado ice cream - just cream, sugar, lemon juice and avocado flesh, freeze and stir when still a bit soft.

We also have two lots of rainbow chard. Normally I just make pasta or something but I looked up and found that cabbage rolls can be made with chard.  Cabbage rolls are a big fat pain to make (I have never tried, but it's a bit like those round pasta rolls whose name escapes me, you have to steam the leaves first and then roll a meat/rice filling in the leaves), and this chard is quite small-leaved. However I have previously made a great layered mince/rice/tomato/cabbage casserole so I think that's where the chard is headed.