We get an organic veg box. In fact, because we are SO community minded, we actually share a veg box with D&Z next door (the larger boxes are much better value for money, so sharing is a good way for impoverished young folk like us to enjoy a veg box without drowning in turnips every week). My cooking has certainly become much more creative in the last six months - I'm not really much of a recipe person, so I tend to just throw whatever looks good together and serve with carb-of-choice. This may have led to some impressively awful meals, but they have at least become fewer over time.
Anyway last night it was my turn to cook as K had Scouts, so I poured myself a fortifying g&t, and opened the fridge to discover some broccoli in need of eating. What would go well with broccoli, I wondered to myself. Toasted cashew nuts with broccoli sound tasty, add the tomatoes that have been sitting in the fridge for a week, serve on rice and hey presto. Surely a nutritionist's dream! It was only a shame we didn't have any bulgar wheat.
K came home around 8pm. The following exchange ensued:
'Hello! What's that you're cooking?'
'Ah! Broccoli in tomato sauce with cashew nuts on rice!'
'Sounds...healthy...'
We looked at each other. A moment of perfect understanding passed between us.
Half an hour later, the pizza delivery man was knocking on the door ;-)
About Me
- The Organic Viking
- Cambridge, United Kingdom
- In an ideal world, I would be living on a smallholding in the beautiful English countryside surrounded by cats, chickens, black labradors, my naughty but adorable children and a much-loved flock of hand-milked goats. As it is, I'm doing a PhD in Early Medieval History at the University of Cambridge and spend most of my days reading Latin in a library somewhere. But why should that stop me?
2 comments:
Phew, I was just beginning to worry that your organic saintliness was too much for me, but now I am reassured and can resume my general admiration in comfort, hehe. It is important for every organic goddess to have the occasional pizza-related lapse :)I have (despite my fears that it would be impossible with a young baby around) managed to fully sow my veg patch, and it has a lovely wooden fence instead of nasty plastic netting this year too!
Hurray for veg patches! I am very envious that you actually have one. Don't worry about the saintliness, the lapses are many and frequent...
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