Wot I did with my mystery veg

[karohemd]

My organic box on Thursday contained purple sprouting broccoli but this was the first time I saw some so asked on a couple of communities how to deal with it. The consensus was to treat it just like broccoli and use all the parts, including leaves.
The box also contained portabello mushrooms, three of which were rather big so I thought I could stuff them. Tesco had a buy one get one free deal on Boursin so I picked up one with herb/garlic and one with pepper.
I scooped out the brown gills and cut off the stem to get a little more volume, chopped the stems finely, and mixed them into a mix of herb and pepper boursin, filled the stuffing into the mushrooms, drizzled them with olive oil, packed them in foil and cooked them in a reasonably high oven for about 15 minutes.
I simply steamed the lightly seasoned (salt, pepper, nutmeg) broccoli in the microwave for about six minutes.
And lo, it was gorgeous. Another successful experiment. :o)

(crossposted to food_porn and organic_boxers)

Comments

[vyvyan.livejournal.com]

Sounds lovely! You seem to come up with some delicious vegetarian meals, despite not being vegetarian.

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

While I have no objections to meat (on the contrary, I love a fine steak once in a while), it doesn't have to be meat all the time and one of the reasons I joined the organic box scheme was to encourage me to diversify and eat more vegetarian meals, simply for health reasons.
It won't make me a strict vegetarian (I love meat far too much and don't have any moral objections to eating it) but hopefully a more balanced omnivore.