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July’s Fourth Veggie-in-the-Spotlight: Runner Beans
Late summer and early autumn are the classic “runner bean season”, although harvesting can start as early as June in some areas. what to do with runner beans? The season starts with fresh, young beans,...
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August’s First Veggie in the Spotlight: Kale – with TWELVE recipe ideas!
TWELVE ways to cook kale An earlier article on kale has proved to be by far and away our most popular piece of veggie information over the years, confirming that it’s still one of the vegbox...
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August’s Second Fruit in the Spotlight: Blueberries
not just for muffins, you know! In season from early August through to late September, size isn’t everything when it comes to blueberries – often it is the smaller ones that are the most delicious....
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August’s Third Fruit in the Spotlight: Pears
it's all going pear shaped If we’re lucky, we’ll start to see pears in our seasonal fruit bags / boxes (or ready for picking in our back gardens!) from the end of August all the way through to the...
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August’s Second Veggie in the Spotlight: Cabbage
the red, the white and the green ... OK I have a confession to make. I started learning about British seasonal veg two years ago, and I STILL hadn’t figured out what cabbages are in season when. I...
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At Long Last: Wholewheat Blueberry Muffins!
finally - muffins! Since we’ve added blueberries to the VegBox ingredients database, and given our August feature on blueberries, it would be most remiss of us not to include a recipe for blueberry...
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Salad Blue Potatoes
salad blues Our neighbours just gifted us with a wild strawberry plant, branches of bay leaves and a bag of Salad Blue potatoes (pictured) from their allotment. But we want to know – how do we cook...
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Left-Over Pizza with Seed Thinnings On Top!
sunday night monday morning Left over Sunday-night pizza and a dislike of food waste bumps up against a Monday-lunch-time craving for greenery and some much needed seed thinning activity. Can you guess...
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Scrumping Greengages and Stewing Them
little green beauties Earlier in the week we mentioned that there was a greengage tree in our neighbourhood (which used to be an old orchard, apparently), and that we had no idea about greengages....
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September’s First Fruit-in-the-Spotlight: Blackberries
Blackberries are in season from late August into October. They are best used as soon as possible after picking. Luckily they freeze well, so you can enjoy them for longer. Click through for blackberry...
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