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Pain de sucre chicory
We had a monster arrive in our organic veg box this week; it looked like a massive head of Chinese leaves… except it wasn’t, the leaves were too fragile, then I thought it might be a weird cabbage or lettuce… but it wasn’t… I gave up and looked at the notes that Riverford organics always […]
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Oh what a funny thing!
This is a romanesco cauliflower… I had one delivered in my Riverford Organics veg box yesterday… apparently it is a fractal… or it is fractal in shape (not quite sure of this technical term!) I don’t exactly understand what it means, according to Wikipedia it is ” a natural phenomenon or a mathematical set that exhibits […]
MoreChinese lanterns
As children we walked to school, and in one of the gardens we passed by was a Chinese lantern plant. I was always fascinated by it, by the fruit which were enclosed in a papery case which would open to reveal a shiny bright orange fruit. We were convinced they were poisonous fr some reason, […]
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Lois Elsden 