Domestic goddess rating: 90% Five-a-day: 5/5 Food miles: about 40 On the menu: Toast and juice (breakfast); filled pasta (lunch); root veg casserole and mashed potato (supper)
The great thing about this is that I get to try out loads of new things to cook. This probably applies to most families, but I’ve got into something of a rut just lately – if it’s Monday it’s baked spuds, if it’s Tuesday it’s spag bol… you know the kind of thing. That’s when eating fresh food goes by the wayside and you just sort of stop thinking. And you get bored. Really, really bored.
So since I didn’t much fancy cabbage this evening, I had a look around and found a recipe that used root veg instead. We ended up with a really good, hearty steamy casserole that was very healthy, vegetarian, 100% seasonal and so tasty even the kids wolfed down (wow – my kids eat swede… and turnip, too!). And it was a new find.
Between my swede-and-turnip mixtures and the cabbagey things I’m actually finding this is kind of interesting. Mind you if you ask me again at the end of February I might tell you different…
Filed under: Cooking, Recipes, Seasonal eating | Tagged: cabbage, casserole, cooking for children, parsnip, swede, turnip, vegetarian
