To your door!
To the shop!
First Saturday in September…
by Chris, 9 yr, 3 m ago in Blog
Comments | Tags: Autumn, Today, apple
Well, September's here and the school's have gone back and holiday trips are now more of a memory as the summer fades poetically into autumn - but don't despair! Look at the lovely foodie things that autumn brings...
Of course the close of summer means the last of the summer fruits: blackberries, strawberries and raspberries but some of these later varieties can be very tasty. But the new stars on the shelves must be the fresh wild mushrooms that are starting to appear from Europe now and will soon be coming from Scotland. This weekend we have 
chanterelles, trompettes de mort 
and cepes 
on offer for tasty wild mushroom risotto, omelette or just as a simple fried medley. These mushrooms benefit from simple treatments to preserve their delicate characteristic flavours.
On the fruit department we are seeing the flow of UK apples speeding up. Locally grown Discovery
and George Cave 
and Katy is now appearing on both the conventionally and organic shelves.
The UK potato growers are now harvesting their maincrop varieties including these Wilja - a good general purpose potato
- and Maris Piper, 
the archetypal chipper and roaster. There have been earlier harvests of these potatoes but the produce does not always display the characteristics for which they are best known when picked young.
Also from Europe we have beautifully ripe Turkish figs, 
great for baking or just peel back the dark skins and chomp into the tender sweet flesh.... and from France these little mirabelle plums make great eating and a tasty jam or compote.