Our sweet tooths get a little boost this week!
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- Sugar baby (dark rind) and yellow doll (light rind) melons
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- Chinese cabbage!
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- Red beets (with lovely tops perfect to add to your dark leafy greens)
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- Sweet corn is here!
Watermelon and sweet corn are certainly getting me excited this week, as well as those sweet cherry tomatoes and ground cherries. Chinese cabbage is the first of the cabbages to be ready, and let me tell you, it is absolutely perfect in stir fries, and also makes an amazing wrap! This recipe for Spicy Chinese Cabbage Wraps looks amazing! If you have a whole share, the cilantro is also included. Since the peppers are not here yet (they are late but should be here soon due to the late frost and lack of rainfall), why not try the snow peas for a little vibrancy and crunch in your wraps? If you want to keep it simple, and super fast, try stir frying your chinese cabbage with zucchini, shrimp and a little broccoli. I seasoned this stir fry with sweet thai chili sauce and oyster sauce, and it tasted amazing. It took all of 20 minutes to feed myself very well! I didn’t bother with the carbs but rice noodles, quinoa or a bed of rice would have paired beautifully!
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- Simple stir fry featuring zucchini and Chinese cabbage!
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- Salads are just so easy to put together this time of year 🙂
In your shares this week:
Week 12 fruit haul 🙂
Simply 6
- mini watermelon (sugar baby (red) or yellow doll (yellow)
- green or purple beans
- 3 cobs of sweet corn
- 1lb zucchini
- cucumbers
- green leaf lettuce or rainbow swiss chard
Half
- mini watermelon (sugar baby (red) or yellow doll (yellow)
- green or purple beans
- 3 cobs of sweet corn
- 1lb zucchini
- cucumbers
- green leaf lettuce or rainbow swiss chard
- chinese cabbage
- bunched red beets
- red kale (though it is purple)
- snow or snap peas
Whole
- mini watermelon (sugar baby (red) or yellow doll (yellow)
- green or purple beans
- 3 cobs of sweet corn
- 1lb zucchini
- cucumbers
- green leaf lettuce or rainbow swiss chard
- chinese cabbage
- bunched red beets
- red kale (though it is purple)
- snow or snap peas
- mixed orange and black/red cherry tomatoes
- cilantro
- red radish
- grape tomatoes or broccoli
- both green leaf lettuce and rainbow swiss chard
- ground cherries (little orangey “pearls” in delicate papery wrappers. A sweet little garden treat to be eaten as is, added to fruit salad, or even used as a garnish for cupcakes. You decide!
Fruit (always 100 % organic!) Come to think of it, so are the veg 😉
- 1 yellow doll melon (Zephyr)
- 6-7 Bosc pears
- 5 clementines
- 3 mangoes
- 4-5 lemons
Hope you have a week filled with love ones, great food and good fun!