Winter veg

This is really more of a test post so I can play around with a few things, but I do have something damned tasty to share too!

I used to get a fortnightly veg box delivered by Bellfield Organics in Fife (http://www.bellfield-organics.com/). I try to use organic produce when I can. I know it isn't any better for you but if I can avoid putting potentially carcinogenic chemicals into mine and Alister's bodies then that's got to be a good choice.  I've also started direct selling Neal's Yard Remedies products - here's my website https://uk.nyrorganic.com/shop/JillBlair/ . The skin is the largest organ in our body and yet whilst some people think twice about what they put into their body through their mouth, the products we put on our skin are just as important.  I'm a total Neal's Yard convert and Alister can use all the products too as they are so natural and safe.

Anyway, back to food!  I stopped getting the veg box as the quality was a bit hit or miss. You just don't want to be able to bend your carrots without them even considering snapping! However, fast forward a couple of years and there was a Groupon offer for an £18 veg box for £8, or something like that. So a month or so ago I had a big family sized veg box delivered. I'm happy to say the quality was much better.  This is what arrived:

A lovely selection of good Fife grown organic winter veg. There was a mountain of tatties, onions and (non-bendy) carrots, a couple of cauliflowers, turnips, parsnips, a green pepper, some cherry tomatoes, a couple of huge leeks, green kale, purple kale and about 8 of my very favourite root veg, beetroots!  It was like veg porn, I could hardly contain myself.

From that lot I made a pot of tattie and leek soup, cauliflower and kale soup, a veg curry and the pepper, some of the carrots and some of the onions went in to a stir fry. But, my very favourite meal was our meat free Sunday dinner. I chopped up a load of veg, added about 6 garlic cloves whole, a few sprigs of fresh rosemary and thyme, a good glug of olive oil and coated all the veg well in the oil.  This is how it looked going into the oven:

What a beautiful sight! I would have taken a photo of it cooked but it didn't stay in the roasting tin for long enough.  We had it with some yorkshire puddings, mashed potato and some veg gravy. The veg gravy was really lovely. Our Sundays are pretty busy so I like shop bought shortcuts. I got a tub of Asda own make vegetable gravy granules and it was really nice, would definitely use it again.

So hopefully the layout of this has worked ok and my photos have appeared. Fingers crossed as I hit the Publish Post button!!

Happy munching,
Jill xx