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Lettuce Soup

Saturday, January 1, 2005 at 09:20PM
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Ingredients

50g Butter
8 Spring onions, trimmed and chopped
6 small butterhead lettuces
800ml chicken stock, or half milk, half stock
small bunches soft herbs, (mint, basil and chervil)
good squeeze lemon juice
2 tbsp double cream

Cooking Instructions

  1. Melt the butter in a heavy bottomed saucepan and sweat the spring onions for about 5 minutes, until completely soft.
  2. Trim the base off each lettuce then slice or tear it and add it to the buttery onions. Heat the lettuce until it wilts and softens in its juices.
  3. Add the herbs and warm stock. Season and blend to a smooth soup using a stick blender or in a food processor. Taste and add lemon juice, seasoning and add the cream if you want to use it.
  4. Serve either hot or cold.

Serves: 4

Quick Braised Lettuce & Peas

Tuesday, April 27, 2010 at 07:08AM
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Ingredients

  • 16 halved pearl onions
  • 300g frozen peas
  • 2 tbsp olive oil
  • 3 Baby Gem lettuces , finely shredded

Method

  1. Cook the pearl onions for 5 mins and the peas for 2 mins in separate pans of boiling water until the onions are soft and the peas are just cooked.
  2. Heat the olive oil in a frying pan, brown the onions, then add the peas and shredded Baby Gem lettuce. Cook just to heat through lettuce, then season and serve.

Little Gem Lettuce & Parmesan Risotto

Tuesday, April 27, 2010 at 07:12AM
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Ingredients

  • butter
  • onion, finely chopped
  • 2 garlic cloves, finely chopped
  • 350g risotto rice carnaroli or arborio
  • 1 large glass dry white wine
  • 1½ l vegetable stock , made up from fresh, cube or concentrate , kept hot
  • 50g parmesan or Grana Padano, grated , plus extra to serve
  • 2 Little Gem lettuces , torn into small pieces

Method

  1. Melt a knob of butter in a large pan, add the onion and garlic and cook until soft and translucent.
  2. Stir in the rice until coated with the butter. Add the white wine and stir until evaporated.
  3. Add the stock a ladle at a time, until the rice is cooked but still with a little bite (you might not need to use all the stock).
  4. Stir through the cheese and the lettuce to gently wilt the leaves. Serve with extra cheese if you like.

Organic Vegetables v Tesco Price Comparison

Tuesday, September 8, 2009 at 02:44PM
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Transition Exeter
A Low Carbon City

Price Comparison : 05 September 2009
Local Organic Vegetables & Tesco

Shillingford Organics

Large Veg Box

 Weight/

Count

 Tesco Metro Central Exeter

Price

(Weight Equiv.)

 Vegetable

 

Vegetable

 

 Potatoes

Onions

Carrots

Beetroot

Courgettes

Hispi Cabbage

Mini-Cucumbers

Little Peppers

Cherry Tomatoes

(with fresh basil)

Runner Beans

Parsley

Lettuce (Lollo Verde)

1.75kg

0.60kg

0.70kg

0.85kg

0.55kg

one

two

two

0.425kg

 

0.45kg

0.245kg

one

Potatoes*

Onions

Carrots

Beetroot *

Courgettes * n/o

Cabbage n/o

Whole cue'*

Single pepper *

Cherry Tomatoes

Runners * n/o

Parsley * n/o

Lettuce (Romaine) *

£1.46

£0.75

£1.11

£3.40

£1.00

£0.78

£1.00

£0.79

£1.81

£2.00

£4.77

£1.28

TOTAL

£13.00

TOTAL

£20.15

All vegetables grown in the UK

n/o = non organic (organic unavailable)

* = pre-packed


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