if they asked me i could write a book

[pensnest]

Poor Sable. We had to take her back to the Vet again last Saturday for the final check-up. She knew Something Was Up. She was *extremely* wary of us all morning! At one-thirty, having had her snuggled as usual while we ate lunch, she disappeared about three minutes before we decided it was time to capture her.

After some baffled pursuit, we were sure she went into the library. But... no cat to be seen. Not in her armchair, not in her usual spot on top of the shelf, not in any of the spaces between the bookshelves. It was only when Beast was on the point of searching elsewhere that I spotted an unusually furry book on the bottom shelf....

Well, her tooth is now fine. I think she forgave us for this visit, as it was brief, and nobody stuck any needles in her.

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I have been trying to follow the ZOE advice to eat at least thirty different plants in a week, and so far it has worked well. It encourages me to be a bit more experimental - no longer is breakfast regularly mini shredded wheats with ginger, nuts and possibly sultanas. Now I break out the blackberries or raspberries or mixed berries from the freezer, or have blueberries and pomegranite seeds with kefir, or porridge with mixed seeds and cinnamon. And I've tried roasting fennel (very nice), aubergine parmigiano (not bad) and tomorrow there will be kalettes, stir fried, which should be interesting at the very least. There's not a lot of plant material in a bacon sandwich, of course.

Does anyone else do this? Any recommendations for unusual plants to eat?

Comments

[word_geek]

My Riverford box last week came with a recommendation to try the 30 a week thing, which I had not previously heard about. I don't know that I am in a position to jump into it right now but they pointed out that herbs count.

Technically, this means that the cottage pie I made today had at least 7 veg in it (leeks, mushrooms, potato, parsnips, tomato, thyme and dill plus whatever else was in the arrabbiata sauce I used for the tomato element). And I didn't make it with peas, which I normally would, because I wasn't sure if Opal would want the other half of the pie (she's not keen on peas, a hangover from Alex complaining about them when she was small). The recipe wanted carrots and celery, but I was going off what we had in

[pensnest]

Yes - herbs and spices count! Though I kinda count them as half, since the quantities are rather small. Also, coffee! Your cottage pie is much more veg-heavy than mine (although - was it entirely vegetarian?)! I keep pondering getting a veg box delivered, but years ago I used to get an Abel & Cole, and ended up buried in potatoes. Perhaps I just need to plan a weekly visit to the market. I could combine it with a visit to the café that does great porridge....

[word_geek]

I got sent beef mince by Ocado. I can't think what it was a substitution for, or how I managed to tick to buy it, but I don't object to having mince, we just usually use soy mince as Alex is vegetarian/pescetarian.

I'd forgotten how much nicer actual mince is *sigh*

I like to cut the fat with some veg anyway and also if there's veg in the pie I don't need to cook a side dish, so I don't get caught out when the timer goes off. I usually just throw in whatever we have. The parsnip was part of the mash. It needs using up. Alex is the one who likes it and he is away

[word_geek]

Riverford has a potato free box. So we get one box with potatoes and one without, and alternate them. Also, we only get a box every other week. So we don't drown in veg we can't eat. When we got a weekly box, we tended to get gluts, and I made a lot of stock