Seven A Day

[kerravonsen]

I am now drinking the juice of four organic oranges, on ice. Today I got my first "assorted box" from a new organic fruit-and-veg online shop; my old one went out of business at the beginning of this year, if I recall correctly. Or was it the beginning of last year? Whatever.

This one... isn't as good, I don't think.
(1) It's more expensive, though that could be because they guarantee that everything is organic, unlike the other one.
(2) They already got two items wrong. I specifically said I didn't want avocados or potatoes, and they gave me an avocado and four potatoes.

The box also had the aforementioned four oranges, two mangos, a bag of mushrooms, a bundle of asparagus, a whole butter lettuce, some kiwi fruit, onions, a small bunch of coriander, four carrots, two cobs of corn and a bunch of rhubarb. I've never cooked rhubarb before - how does one cook rhubarb? I recall my sister saying that rhubarb makes a good base for a sorbet, so I'd like to try that.

Comments

[fred_mouse]

It also stews very nicely with banana. One thing to watch out for is that there are issues with calcium absorption when eating it. I had thought that the recommendation was to have calcium containing foods when eating it, but this site seems to be saying the opposite. Another thing that my mother in law does with rhubarb is to make a 'luna cake' - chunks of raw rhubarb are added to a basic cake mix, brown sugar sprinkled on top, and the whole lot baked. As the rhubarb cooks, it becomes smaller, and the top of the cake drops down where it is (poor explanation - example recipe here)