Why This Is Hell

Kale.

I learnt last year that to ignore this is bad, because it's only going to get chewier. Serving suggestions welcome - it may be helpful to know I also have:

calabrese (broccoli)
1/2 red cabbage
1/2 swede
tomatoes
onion
little gem lettuce
endless carrots
leek
red pepper

By tomorrow I'm likely to have some bacon and cheese, and imagine the Ready Steady Cook store cupboard of stock, spices, herbs, dried fruit, flours, sugar, red lentils, yellow split peas, mung beans... There are (defrostable) turkey bits and white fish if it's an accompaniment.

Edit: Nibb'lous suggests:
curly kale and chickpea balti
cavolo nero with rosemary and chilli
colcannon
dijon chicken stew with potatoes and kale

and:
curly kale stir fry with lentils
curly kale and potato risotto

kale pesto


I think maybe the balti, but I'm sure there's more kale to come.

This week I can look forward to:

Red potatoes
White onion
beetroot
1lb new potatoes
1/2 bunch carrots
1/2 savoy cabbage
sweetcorn
bunch rosemary
1/2 swede
romanesco
sprout top
little gem lettuce
baking potato

"Sprout tops" are curiously resistent to Google (top recipes for sprouts rather than recipes for sprout tops come up, despite quotation marks) but it seems to be treatable like spinach, not that I've cooked that often. A quick rinse, roll up and slice, stir fry in ginger, soya and sesame seeds for two minutes.

I bought a romanesco from Borough Market once and wasn't impressed, so will try again.

I may bake the beetroot, but it might be nice pickled.

I bought a pile of shallots today, for pickling, and some reduce to clear rhubarb. Yum.

I've cheated and looked up this week's box:

1/2 cauliflower
red potatoes
red onion
1lb salad potatoes
leeks
parsnips
srpout stalk
bunch thyme
little gem lettuce
1/2 celeriac
sprout top

Celeriac is the unknown quantity. I will have cabbage and potatoes left, but I'm out so many nights this week it's not been conducive to home cooking. Actual contents may vary.