I find myself surprised to be raving about turnips but rave I am going to! Those baby turnips we have been getting from Gordon Caldwell are so good. I have never tasted such sweet, succulent turnips. I have seen some comments on the Facebook group that some of our subscribers don’t like turnips and are…
Author: Sally
Satay Cauliflower
This recipe is super simple and can be adapted for lots of different veg. I made this last week & it was a big hit with my family. As we have cauliflower in all the veg boxes I thought this would be a good week to share it. Satay sauce is an Asian peanut sauce…
Radish Stew Recipe
My grandad was obsessed with radishes. In summer he used to wonder around eating them like apples and I could never understand why. To my young palate they were too hot and peppery and I did not like them. When I got older and more interested in food I found radishes bland. By that time…
Black Garlic Recipe
We’ve got an exciting new ingredient in the veg box shop this week. Black garlic is a really handy store cupboard ingredient and it tastes like nothing else. It is versatile enough to add to almost any cuisine to give sweetness and complexity, it doesn’t really taste like garlic. This black garlic comes from Spain….
What is the Hunger Gap?
If you have been a Locavore customer for a while you will know all about the Hunger Gap. Its that time of year between winter and spring when fresh food is scarce. Supermarkets sell us “fresh” food which can be six months or even, in the case of apples, a year old. They harvest produce…
2020 was a terrible year for our social lives and also brassicas
Life feels pretty chaotic and yet slow and dull at the same time at the moment. Nearly a year into the pandemic and a few weeks into Brexit and things could be worse in the veg world but they could also be a lot better. I wanted to write a post about what is going…