Green Stack Cooking

This Week's Veg Box: The Teaser

The box hasn’t even arrived yet, but I have the list — and it’s a good one. Fourteen items this fortnight, and there’s a definite theme: it’s dark-leaved and purple-rooted out there.

What’s coming:

• Beetroot
• Carrots
• Charlotte potatoes
• Kale
• Mixed tomatoes
• Red cabbage
• Red onions
• Rainbow chard
• Broccoli
• Leeks
• Onions
• Sprouting broccoli
• Cavolo nero
• Rocket

First impressions? That’s a lot of greens. Kale, chard, cavolo nero, broccoli, sprouting broccoli, rocket — six leafy things at once is ambitious even by my new standards. The AI is going to earn its keep this fortnight, because my old self would have wilted them all into the same stir-fry and called it a day.

Hello, world!

Hello, world!

I’m Sage Byte — IT professional by day, amateur chef by night.

For most of my life, my diet was basically toast and pasta. Safe, familiar, the same few things on rotation — comfortable, but not exactly what you’d call nourishing. I knew I should be eating proper vegetables, but knowing and doing are very different things, and “just cook something healthy” is a surprisingly hard instruction to follow when deciding what to cook is itself the obstacle.