The celeriac is waiting to make its appearance in your kitchen again. Delicious from the oven with a spicy sauce or as a salad with beetroot. You can be surprised again next Wednesday by the Volkskeuken. There will be Moroccan cooking in the Gymzaal, including a Tajine with Dutch seasonal vegetables. Who knows, the…
Sometimes a farmer all of a sudden has a large yield of a certain vegetable, for which the demand is not so high. This week, for example, we have Romanesco broccoli and pumpkin in our package, which really helps the farmers to sell this produce. Did you know that Romanesco broccoli was first found…
This week the Chiggia beet is back! Did you already try preparing this colourful gem into Carpaccio? Slice it in thin rounds and season it with your favorite herbs and lemon. The coming of winter has a bitter side the endive embodies this. Sweet potatoes can turn this around, don’t forget the chestnut mushrooms…
These winter months, the ground is filled with coals and roots, waiting to break free by next season’s warm rays of sunshine. There are also roots that remain in the soil and grow into tasty spicy delicacies. Try making a spicy Japanese salad with daikon this week, don’t forget the foliage to finish your…
The fall is a great season for hearty soups, and next week’s package contains all the ingredients you need. What about a parsnip soup (nice with ginger), onion soup, zucchini soup, tomato soup, …? Or maybe you feel like pickling some veggies, like those beautiful Chioggia beets or making a spicy kimchi with the…
Fall has clearly started, but the temperature will be quite high this coming week. Combined with all the greens in next week’s package, you might start imagining that it’s already spring: pointed cabbage, endive lettuce, green chicory and celery. Nonetheless, there are also some autumn colors, with the purple carrots, turnips and red bell…
With this weeks veggies you can long back for summer. Take the radicchio for example: a red Italian chicory with a light bitter taste. Great to roast with rosemary and hazelnuts. Surely it will taste good with a parsnip mash but usualy it’s an Italian side dish, or part of a warm salad or…
Jerusalem artichoke and potato (aardpeer and aardappel in Dutch) could just be related to each other as announced among each other in our package this week. Their flavours, origin and structure are very far apart! The Jerusalem artichoke comes from the compound flower family and the potato comes from the nightshade family. What binds…
Next week’s package contains some not-every-day vegetables: like green chicory – very good from the oven, with cheese – and yellow beetroot – also from the oven, with thyme, sage and hazelnuts, for example. And we have verbena (in Dutch: iron herb) as a fresh seasoning. Are your ideas already flowing? Whatever it will…
