Greens, greens, greens greens

Today is organic box day and I am disappointed.  Last weeks was pretty good overall - potatoes, carrots, onions, brussels, chestnut mushrooms, tomatoes, purple sprouting, leeks.  A good variety and I liked almost all of it.

This week I decided to try a mixed fruit & veg box, plus some extra potatoes as we get through quite a lot  and a lemon.  I upped the size from a small to a medium to that I would get just as much veg, just extra fruit.  The trouble with that is that the boxes are deigned for increasing numbers of people, so instead of more variety, I got larger quantities of just a few types of veg.  And it's not their fault, but I really dislike several of the items.  There are spuds, carrots and onions as standard, every week, which is fine.  But the greens this week are savoy cabbage, curly kale and leeks, none of which I like when they are recognisable (leeks are good in soup).  But to me savoy and kale aren't good in anything, so I'm having to think up ways of disguising them.  Tonight is bubble & squeak, with added onion and red pepper and tamari to try to take away the taste of the savoy.

Unfortunately the box I got originally was a medium veg box, and it had all sorts of nice things like purple kohl rabi, celeriac, raw beetroots, red onions and cavalerro nero (sp?).  But it was the wrong box so I had to give it back and have instead a load of things I don't like.  Next week I'm going back to just veg - the bananas are bright green so won't be edible until next week anyway, the apples are woolly which I dislike and the pears are like bullets.  So definitely not worth doing again.

I'm starting to remember why I gave up on organic veg boxes last time. :(