another subject

I am a relatively new follower of Bitten Blog, having heard about it fro AC and CG but never sure that I wanted to read about cooking when all I do in that dept is try and get a balanced, cooked, dinner on the table each night. However a few weeks ago we started getting a box of vegetables delivered from a local farm. Nothing very new, we had tried this 7 years ago with Pioneer Organics in Seattle. Didn't work too well since T only really ate cake for his first two years of solid food. Now P and T are 11 and 7 respectively and I have decided a vegetable education is required.
So far it has gone well, though after the third week of tennis ball sized beetroots (4 a week) even I could not think of another way to prepare them that I would relish eating. The last of these beetroots languishes in the fridge several weeks later (they keep well, so someday it will make an appearance on the table).
R always encourages me to write down recipes so that I can recreate those that have worked well, but honestly the time it takes to write down, I could have invented something better using those precious minutes - so rarely do two meals turn out to be identical. However the past few weeks have seen me reaching for powers of inventiveness that I never thought I possessed, though Friday night desolate fridge dinners are always my specialty. You know the one where you've got a bendy carrot, a cucumber and an egg and have to conjure up something edible and balanced without a trip to the shops.
Enough preamble, to add to my running you will now also hear about the vegetable box, it's contents and how they are dealt with. Last night, soup, a classic. Boiled chicken carcass for stock with sweet onion. Vegetables included, swede, parsnip, celeriac root, potatoes, cavolo nero, mushrooms (farmers market), garlic (store bought), leeks, carrots, dried herbs, bay leaves, salt and pepper. T excused from eating mushrooms, all the rest went down well with all! Dessert prepared by P and T, baked apples and homemade custard Mmmm. The aim each week is to have finished all/most of the weeks box before the next one arrives, so far (apart from the aforementioned beetroot) so good.
Knee cap dislocating all week, 6 miles on Thursday, 2.5 miler on Sunday...ramping up this week.