recipes needed for glut of cabbage, swede and onion

[sophy]

I love my organic veg box but it is a bit repetitious at the moment.

Please may I have ideas for cooking cabbage (Savoy) one of my favourite veg but usually just steam it, Swede which we tolerate usually mashed or roasted, and onions which I usually just use as an ingredient in other recipes don't know what to do to make them a veg in their own right.

Thanks!

What about stuffed cabbage rolls?

Separate the cabbage leaves and cut out the stalks. Par boil for about a minute and then blanch and drain.

Stuff with a mixture of any chopped, diced veg - I do it with some chopped pork tenderloin/fillet, onion, mushroom and peppers - then pour over cheese sauce and bake in the oven for around 20 mins.

French onion soup - that uses loads. or an onion curry, is it do-piaza?

The only recipe i know for Savoy cabbage is a kind of spicy lamb stew: lamb mince/fennel/onions/garlic/spices fried, then add red lentils/tin of tomatoes/mango chutney/half a shredded savoy cabbage and let it simmer in iron pot for an hour. It's from an old Prima pull-out and is fantastic.

Problem is that savoy and fennel are not really in the same season!

Bubble and squeak

colcannon. I have two collegues who have organic boxes and they swap things like potato and onions when one of them has too many.

Mash the swede with other things for a change - potato or carrot for example. Normally you would probably be getting excess carrots in your box too, but I understand that a lot of the carrots got waterlogged this year...

Swede mash as above can be made into a really quick snack/meal if you grate some cheese on the top too. (not if you are on low fat or low carb diet though)

I'm not a big cabbage fan, but I would tend to make a chunky veg soup i.e. not blended, and add the shredded cabbage for the last couple of minutes and simmer. Can also make chicken noodle soup. I use rice noodles as dh needs gluten free food.

The cabbage leave are fantastic in a Greek/ Moroccan (forgot which but it can be adapted) dish that involves mixing minced lamd with sultanas and spices then making a parcel with the cabbage leaves and cocktail sticks and steaming or baking sealed in foil.

Minestrone soup uses cabbage and and onions.

Baked onions are a lovely sweet side dish to beef or lamb.

Swede is a hard one.

p.s. do you have the option to ring your supplier and make requests e.g. no swede for a week or two and see what else you get instead?

Me again. I made a veg curry ( I make up the recipe each time to use stuff up) and instead of potato which I love, I used diced swede. It tasted fine, sorry to anyone who is cringing at me using odd ingredients in a pot and then calling it a curry

dh would go for the swede curry.

Thanks for all the ideas.

personally I cant stand swede, but my kids love it if I steam it in chunks then drizzle with walnut oil and sprinkle with cinnamon (that said, they'll try nearly anything with cinnamon on it...).

For the onions, maybe make a potload of tomato pasta sauce with lots of sauteed onions then freeze it in batches. Also, my DH tells me that raw chopped onion freezes well, again in batches, then toss it into whatever you're making later.