My veg box!!!

My dining room smelled like a greengrocers!  I hadn't realised just how, errr, sanitised, supermarket produce is.  Lacking in both smell and flavour.  

I finally feel re-inspired about cooking and have made some delicious food, with ingredients that I'd normally pass over....such as roasted beetroot with toasted cumin seeds and lemon.  I have also been forced to use up all of the veg instead of 'not fancying that tonight' and letting it go all limp in the fridge.  

Other lovely meals we've had include, roasted butternut squash and coconut soup with homemade cheesy garlic bread, stir  fried vegetables in oyster sauce with spicy cocnut shrimp fried rice, Baked potatoes with bacon and wild rocket salad, lamb shank curry with pilau rice, wholewheat spaghetti with spring greens, roasted tomatoes and sausages, spaghetti with buutternut squash and crispy bacon.

I have yet to cook the chicken (it's in the freezer still) as we went away for the weekend, and such a deserving piece of meat needs a sunday afternoon to do it justice....along with crispy roasties and lots of vegetables and lashings of gravy...mmmmm.....