This week’s Boxes

This week’s recipe is roasted carrot and fennel soup. Italian fennel is exceptionally good at the moment. This soup is bursting with flavour, roasting the fennel and carrots brings out a subtle sweetness. We have included all the ingredients in both the £25 and £15 boxes.

Fennel is a member of the carrot family, though it’s not a root vegetable. The base of its long stalks weave together to form a thick, crisp bulb that grows above ground. Though the stalks and leaves are edible, fennel recipes most often call for the bulb. When raw, it has a crisp texture similar to celery and a fresh licorice flavour. It caramelizes as it cooks, taking on a sweeter flavour and tender, melt-in-your mouth texture. It has all sorts of health benefits too, It’s low in calories, but high in nutrients like dietary fibre, potassium, and vitamin C, to name a few. Thinly slice then marinate in lemon juice, olive oil, and salt, it is delicious on its own or in a larger salad. Dress it up with herbs, nuts, and shaved Parmesan cheese. To roast cut into wedges, spread them cut-side-down on a baking sheet with a little space between each one. Toss them with olive oil, salt, and pepper, and roast at 180 degrees for 25-35 minutes, until the wedges are tender and caramelized around the edges.

This week we have Rebellion tomatoes in our £25 box, these large winter tomatoes are sweet and juicy. They’ve earned their rebellious name with their refusal to grow uniformly smooth.

Both boxes include sweetheart cabbage (Hispi cabbage), a sweet pointed green cabbage, perfect for steaming or stir fries. Try frying with chopped garlic, chilli and ginger and dressing with a dash of soy sauce, or take a knob of butter and a pinch of caraway seed and fry lightly for just a couple of minutes. This cabbage goes perfectly with our fish of the week – sea bass £12.50 for 2 fillets including a pot of our flavoured butter – lemon, garlic and parsley, just finely shred the cabbage and gently cook in the melted butter.

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Our £15 box (ideal for 2/3 people)

Baking potatoes
Onion (R)
Carrots (R)
Fennel (R)
Sweetheart cabbage
Cauliflower
Baby leaf spinach
Navel oranges
Braeburn apples

(R) items needed for the recipe

Our £25 box (ideal for a family of 4) contains all of the above in larger quantities

Rebellion tomato
Flat lettuce
Avocado
Mushrooms

Some items may change to bring you what’s best available on the day