It’s beginning to look a lot like spring! Time to bring cucumber back to your salads and sandwiches. This week the package also contains wild (or ‘coarse’) spinach, which is only harvested when the leaf is fully grown. Like regular spinach, wild spinach is rich in nutrients (especially iron) but its leaves are larger and…
Next week you may have to wade through the muddy crust of salsify for the last time this season. In English-speaking countries, the salsify is also called the “oyster plant” because you can recognize a little bit of an oyster-like flavor in it. Cherish your last moments with winter vegetables because spring season is…
There’s some purple power to look forward to next week. Red cabbage gets its glorious hue from the natural plant pigment anthocyanin, which contains antioxidant properties. Will you rustle up a colourful, crunchy coleslaw salad, or simmer it with some apple and fennel seeds for a hearty side dish? And if you’ve never tried…
Dear people, Next week we have a lovely colorful vegetable package, to brighten up these sometimes gloomy days! Many of these vegetables are excellent for pickling or fermenting, so you can enjoy them for a long time. Use the Chinese cabbage and carrots to make a Korean kimchi. Pickled red onion is delicious on…
Jerusalem artichoke and potato (aardpeer and aardappel in Dutch) could just be related to each other as announced among each other in our package this week. Their flavours, origin and structure are very far apart! The Jerusalem artichoke comes from the compound flower family and the potato comes from the nightshade family. What binds…
