Adventures in Food

I got this from Ulrike who has also been playing with her food: " Hello Sarah & Rob, I've made an adventure with food today: Black Salsify. Abel & Cole have delivered them with the small deluxe box twice in the last three weeks and today we felt adventurous enough to cook them! You boil them for about half an hour, and then peel the bark-like skin off: We've eaten them in browned goat's butter & parsley accompanied by an omelette: Tastes like jerusalem artichoke I find. According to Jules' research on the internet, salsify was Thomas Jefferson's favourite vegetable! I don't think it's as adventurous as your purple mushrooms or squirrel stew but I thought I'd share it with you, Ulrike xx " Ulrike then reported that she thinks the salsify didnt agree with her too well but maybe it was because it had been sitting in the box for three weeks. Thanks U!

Abel & Cole send us a box of unwashed vegetables and fruit every week. It is left in the plastic greenhouse outside the back door. Since Christmas they seem to have had a special deal with the orange suppliers of Spain as we have had streams of oranges (and clems, tangerines, etc) flooding through each week. Now I am not that into eating oranges. I normally eat biscuits and toast and things like that unless Rob cooks a nice pasta. (That;'s why I need to go on these diets because otherwise i eat all sorts of crap. Like right now, I am eating shortbreads that I picked up free at the local shop, they are past their sell-by date but taste none the worse for that!). Eventually we had a mountain of oranges piled up in the fruit bowl, one or two went mouldy of course as citrus does. And then Rob caught the epidemic flu-cough of Ealing. And I looked after him. And I saw those oranges, and my friend Anna told me that vitamin C helps during a cold (but not. apparently, beforehand, to bui...