my favourite vegetables

Last Thursday, in our fruit box, we got a pineapple and a mango. Pretty sweet. With our lovely friend Susan, (and she really is one of those rare people who is truly 'lovely'), we've been splitting organic fruit and veg boxes. It's really fantastic - every week thus far we've gotten a mystery fruit or veg: one turned out to be a kohlrabi (quite tasty in our veg biryani). The mystery fruit (Susan keeps passing them off - her turn next time!) remains an enigma of the fruit world. It was really tasty but I've no idea what it was... Kinda pineapple like in consistency, but softer and less stringy; sweetness like a guava (but without the gritty texture); shaped kinda like a fat mango. It had very hard pips throughout and the skin looked like a kid had made it out of moddelling clay with her thumbs to make a pattern.

We started on this cause we realised that the green-grocers on our corner was actually a trap...it's like having a huge extension on the kitchen. And we were going every day for something or other. So now, we split a huge box of fruit and a regular box of veg and we're all happy chappies.

It's from Goosemoor organics - a farm near Weatherby. They don't taste quite as nice as our own allotment veggies...but our allotment has a way to go before it can sustain us year round.