For the love of St Nigel Slater, WHAT can I do with the lettuces I keep getting in the veg box?

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Is there anything tasty you can do to lettuce? I have three, in varying states of freshness, in my fridge.

braise with a bit of butter and add a squeeze of lemon to serve. yum.

Never tried it but I've heard Lettuce Soup is nice. I think you can also do a pea and lettuce soup which sounds tastier.

More ideas here.

second the lettuce soup. very yum.

Third the lettuce soup!!!

Oh that does look nice - that blog article is good too.
Thanks

I have done a 'summer soup' with lettuce, spinach watercress and sorrel (though I don't normally have any sorrel).
I'm sure it would taste just as good in freezing December as in July

I had never heard of lettuce soup.

Since you were all so helpful: what can I do with multiple kiwi fruits?
And is there a good way to cook broccoli other than steaming it, because ds just looked at me sadly when I said it was broccoli with dinner again.

I wish they would farking vary the veg, the bastards!

Braise with butter and frozen peas and a bit of stock.... I think it's called petit pois a la Parisienne.... Refer to St Nigella

Well, it's completely inauthentic but whenever I make a curry I tip in all our unused vegetables too - DH doesn't really notice a bit of manky broccoli/baby corn/red pepper here or there.

Brocolli - I usually just pour boiling water over it. You can break it up into small pieces and stir fry then add soy sauce etc... Or bigger pieces and roast with cauliflower and cumin seeds

Add some other fruits to the kiwis (frozen will do), some yogurt and oats, and make a smoothie.

I put lettuce into noodles. An entire flat leaf collapses into one bowl.
Kiwis? I eat about 8 a day anyway.
Broccoli? Stirgry or steam slihtly and dress in salad.

Broccoli - par boil it for a couple of minutes.

In a wok/frying pan, fry a sliced onion in some sesame oil, with a finely chopped clove or garlic (or 2,3,4 - according to taste), and a finely sliced red pepper.

If you/your DC like it, you can add some red chilli too.

When softened, add the broccoli and stir-fry till tender.

you can also make broccoli cheese in the same way as cauliflower cheese

or do mixed broccoli and cauliflower cheese

Second broccoli cheese; don't bother with any of that minging cauliflower.

Also Broccoli with a squeeze of lemon juice over it is lovely.

Also v nice steamed with soy sauce over it too.

Broccoli and feta salad nice too. Steam breifly, Chop up some feta, red onion, then dress with lemon juice and olive oil and salt. Finish with some oregano.

Do this!! it's a very simple Heston recipe, and it's delicious. Can be improvised by adding flavourings if you like (some chopped garlic along with the butter, or a squeeze of lemon juice at the end) but is great on it's own.

Ooh that sounds nice, Poledra!

Bet you could do that with cauliflower too, with a bit of cumin.

lettuce

-yy to petit pois a la francaise, here's a recipe, very good with chicken

• caesar salad
• lettuce and lovage soup
• lettuce hearts with hot butter dressing

broccoli

• broccoli soup w gorgonzola
• with orichiette chilli and anchovy
• with lemon and hazelnuts

Buy this book. Its brill for veg ideas, simple but tasty.

Oooh....
I have Nigel Slater's veg one (good for meat-eaters) and Yottam Ottolenghi. Both are strangely quiet on the subject of lettuce, though

Thanks you lot.

Re lettuce, if there's lots to use up I just use it like greens. Works very well usually.

You can add it to things like

• stir fries
• veg soup
• Chinese/Thai dishes