 eurozone by kate 3: cabbage creations It is very hard these days to find time to be creative. I know that management gurus are always telling you to be creative with your Excel spreadsheets and product review meetings, but I never really found there was much scope with them. Which is partly why I’ve given up my career in the corporate field. But I’ll tell you what forces you to be creative these days: an organic vegetable box. Yes, I’ve finally gone and done it, and committed myself to a weekly mystery tour of £10 ($15?) worth of organic fruit and vegetables. And what’s more, I have no idea, until it arrives, what is going to be in it, apart from potatoes, carrots and the bi-weekly onions, of course. But that leaves 4 or 5 mystery veg and 2 mystery fruit for me to try and cook into something wholesome and tasty over the week ahead. So far I’ve enjoyed the challenge, and for the first time in my life I am actually planning menus for the week ahead. Hence necessity has forced me to be creative. This week I’ve had courgettes (zucchini), cauliflower, carrots, onions, potatoes, chestnut mushrooms, kiwi fruit and apples. A very delicious smelling lasagne is in the oven as I speak, containing mushrooms, carrots, garlic, white wine and few other bits and pieces I picked up in the organic supermarket. Tomorrow I’ll make a vegetable curry with cauliflour, courgettes, carrots, spices and yoghourt. I’m planning to bake a kiwi cake at the weekend. And I actually find it fun to look into the fridge and try to create something I’ll enjoy with what’s left. Of course, another advantage of an organic box scheme is that it forces you to eat lots of fresh vegetables. Fancy an MSG-loaded Chinese take-away? Well, you’ve still got half a cabbage, a bag of carrots, two pears and two peppers to eat before Tuesday. For solitary types like myself who have chucked in their career (and the salary that goes with it), I can scarcely justify not eating stuff I’ve already paid for when another loaded box full of unknowns from the vegetable kingdom will be landing on my doorstep in a few days. I have to be pretty determined to cook every day to eat it all in time. So load up those vitamins and let me eat vegetables! But it’s only Saturday today and so far this week it’s been easy, as the box arrives on Wednesday and I still have quite a bit of choice to help me. When your resourcefulness is pushed to the max is on Tuesdays, when the odd smattering of bits and pieces needs to be compiled into an attractive meal to tempt my tastebuds. And of course I leave all my least favourite things to last. So my plan is to finish it all up by then. And then I can treat myself to pizza. |
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