Three vegetables

[Pepper Pig Profile]

I received my latest Oddbox delivery overnight. I so love getting it, thanks Pat.

Amongst the usual delights are:

1: A living lettuce. I've been asked to put it in nutrient-rich water for the best effect. It has gone in a pint glass with tap water. What should I add?

2: The most enormous Savoy cabbage you ever did see. Suggestions for using it very welcome.

3: A marrow. Ditto.

There were also 4 huge, very hard passion fruit.

[Earthmaiden Profile]

3. My favourite marrow dish is thick slices of peeled and cored marrow
brushed with oil and stuffed with sausage meat - or nut roast mixture if preferred - baked in the oven and served with a bechamel or cheese sauce.

My mother used to fry chunks of it, add to white sauce and serve with sausages. I like things like a little onion flavour and nutmeg added to the sauce.

Someone here recently did something interesting with cabbage, I can't remember what.

ETA it was this - I wonder if it would work with Savoy. Stuffed leaves otherwise!

This evening, I made "Poor Man's Cabbage Bake", from Gennaro's "Fast Cook Italian". Essentially it's a bake of a hispi cabbage, mozzarella and sourdough bread. Absolutely superb.

[Gruney2 Profile]

Rick Stein's recipe for Kapuska works very well with Savoy cabbage.

[Pampy Profile]

I buy living lettuces from Ocado - they're great and last for ages. But I found very quickly that I had to change the water they were in every day otherwise they would smell awfully!

[Suelle Profile Website]

I like this Savoy cabbage recipe, also from Gennaro (with Antonio Carluccio). I do cut down on the butter (a lot) and the cheese (a little), though.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/pota ... bake_02489

If you need to feed your lettuce, you need liquid plant food such as Tomorite or Baby Bio.

[scullion Profile]

epsom salts for the lettuce or a bit of aspirin - that's what you're meant to put in flowers to keep them going, aren't you?
stuffed cabbage leaves for the outside ones and non pasta lasagne with the less 'tasty' interior ones?
marrow and ginger jam.
leave the passion fruit to ripen and wrinkle then put the contents in the freezer until you make something that you would want to use them on - like a cheesecake.

[KeenCook2 Profile]

We like summer minestrone if we have cabbage to use up.

Felicity's recipe is a good basic one https://www.theguardian.com/food/2021/j ... asterclass

[Seatallan Profile]

I was going to suggest minestrone too. I also adore stuffed cabbage.

EM's marrow suggestion sounds divine!!

[Suffs Profile]

Savoy cabbage is much nicer than white cabbage, shredded in a coleslaw.

[karadekoolaid Profile]

My favourite recipe for cabbage comes from a book by Julie Sahni, and it´s called Blue Mountain Stew. Cooked lentils ( she actually uses toor dal) onion, tomatoes, lots of cabbage and a spice mixture called "sambhar" - which is remarkably similar to curry powder.
If you´ve got time on your hands, stuffed cabbage leaves - Russian, Polish, Serbian - are delish, if a little time-consuming. However, they can be frozen, so no problem.
Marrow? definitely stuffed, although a friend of mine´s mum used to bake it in the oven with little more than butter, salt and pepper. A very delicate dish.
Never been given a living lettuce.
All mine are as dead as doornails.

[scullion Profile]

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my other suggestion for cabbage.
it's a dutch recipe usually made with white cabbage but i don't see why it wouldn't be good with savoy.

[liketocook Profile]

I often regrow spring onions in a glass of water. A tip I got was to add a good pinch of compost to the glass or a couple of drops of plant food. They grow really well and I can't see why it wouldn't work with a living lettuce. You do need to change the water every few days.
As far as savoy cabbage goes, I'd happily eat a massive bowl of it steamed with lots of butter and black pepper. My Greek DIL-to-be makes dolmades with it if she can't get vine leaves. They're tasty.
Thinly sliced peeled marrow layered with potatoes and savoury mince or ragu then topped with cheese sauce and baked is rather good.

[Seatallan Profile]

As far as savoy cabbage goes, I'd happily eat a massive bowl of it steamed with lots of butter and black pepper.

[Uschi Profile]

Savoy cabbage is made into cabbage parcels stuffed with minced meat and then fried until golden brown and then braised until ready. Fry the leftover cabbage with some onions and lots of caraway seeds, make a good gravy to go with it and potato mash. Serve the parcel and the mash with the gravy and freeze the rest for later.

[Pepper Pig Profile]

That sounds good Usch but I’ll have to pass on the caraway seeds.

[PatsyMFagan Profile]

I received my latest Oddbox delivery overnight. I so love getting it, thanks Pat.

Amongst the usual delights are:

1: A living lettuce. I've been asked to put it in nutrient-rich water for the best effect. It has gone in a pint glass with tap water. What should I add?

2: The most enormous Savoy cabbage you ever did see. Suggestions for using it very welcome.

3: A marrow. Ditto.

There were also 4 huge, very hard passion fruit.

I loved the living lettuce ... it went on for ages ... It was the enormous size of some of the other veg that made me decide to give it a rest .. I was giving more to the neighbours than I was able to eat myself.

You can request NOT to receive certain veg, but it's not that I don't want them, it's the giant ones I don't want. Oddbox just don't seem to cater for a single person household ...

[PatsyMFagan Profile]

I buy living lettuces from Ocado - they're great and last for ages. But I found very quickly that I had to change the water they were in every day otherwise they would smell awfully!

Pampy, this is/was one whole lettuce with a bare root ball (iirc), not the little pots of lettuce seedlings ... It really did live for ages. I kept mine in a ceramic pot, so the root ball was kept in the dark and don't recall any nasty smell at all ..

[Stokey Sue Profile]

I get living lettuce from the shop over the road, it comes with the roots in a bit of potting compost wrapped in something like J-cloth

I’ve not tried keeping it going for long, but I wouldn’t have thought to feed it

[Seatallan Profile]

Savoy cabbage is made into cabbage parcels stuffed with minced meat and then fried until golden brown and then braised until ready. Fry the leftover cabbage with some onions and lots of caraway seeds, make a good gravy to go with it and potato mash. Serve the parcel and the mash with the gravy and freeze the rest for later.

Uschi, that sounds properly scrumptious. I have SO got to try that.

[Pampy Profile]

I buy living lettuces from Ocado - they're great and last for ages. But I found very quickly that I had to change the water they were in every day otherwise they would smell awfully!

Pampy, this is/was one whole lettuce with a bare root ball (iirc), not the little pots of lettuce seedlings ... It really did live for ages. I kept mine in a ceramic pot, so the root ball was kept in the dark and don't recall any nasty smell at all ..

It was a whole lettuce with a bare root, not seedlings https://www.ocado.com/products/living-t ... -534048011 I've had a couple and they both needed to have the water changed every day - although I never thought to put a bit of food in - will try that next time.