Everyone here adores cucumber, so it's hard to tell. It can substitute for courgette in things, so you can chop it up fine in soups and stews. It juices really well if you like veggie or somewhat veggie juice. Also, Pimms.
Personally I'd recommend swapping back in the celery. Celery's sort of essential for lots of Italian cooking, and the classic trick is to cut it up so fine that it leaves no trace in the sauce. You might find that if you string it carefully you don't find it so objectionable, too. Cauliflower out of our organic boxes this summer has mostly been graffiti or romanescu, both of which are vastly better than your boring white cauli.
Brassicas are the *best*. Chop them up fine (spot a trend here) and add them to soup. Or stir fry them. Or put them in curries or lasagna.
Weirdly, after the week where the Wholegood Uber Veg box left us so overprovisioned I made piccalilli, this week it looks like we're going to run out of everything except red cabbage (very difficult in midsummer because of my tendency to associate it with Scouse).
Steven spent much of this afternoon trimming next door's apple tree to prevent it from damaging our shed, and brought a large bowl of apples back with him. "They're cookers", explained the next door neighbour. "They're eaters", explained Jonathan, well-known lover of sour fruit. Nevertheless, I plan rosehip and apple jelly if there are any left tomorrow.
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Personally I'd recommend swapping back in the celery. Celery's sort of essential for lots of Italian cooking, and the classic trick is to cut it up so fine that it leaves no trace in the sauce. You might find that if you string it carefully you don't find it so objectionable, too. Cauliflower out of our organic boxes this summer has mostly been graffiti or romanescu, both of which are vastly better than your boring white cauli.
Brassicas are the *best*. Chop them up fine (spot a trend here) and add them to soup. Or stir fry them. Or put them in curries or lasagna.
Weirdly, after the week where the Wholegood Uber Veg box left us so overprovisioned I made piccalilli, this week it looks like we're going to run out of everything except red cabbage (very difficult in midsummer because of my tendency to associate it with Scouse).
Steven spent much of this afternoon trimming next door's apple tree to prevent it from damaging our shed, and brought a large bowl of apples back with him. "They're cookers", explained the next door neighbour. "They're eaters", explained Jonathan, well-known lover of sour fruit. Nevertheless, I plan rosehip and apple jelly if there are any left tomorrow.
Sorry, bit of a long comment...