Thursday 28 August 2008

Mayonnaise - Quick Recipies

Mix mayo with freshly snipped fresh chives to make either a great replacement for butter or a dip.

Mix mayo with finely crushed garlic to make a wonderful replacement for butter or a tangy dip.

Simply dip chips or potato wedges in it, sheer heaven.

Mix together 1 teaspoon mayonnaise, 1/2 teaspoon tomato ketchup, few drops of lemon juice to make a super sauce for seafood.

Wednesday 27 August 2008

Seasonal Food For August

Cheeses - Farmhouse Cheddar, goats milk cheeses.

Fish - Dover sole, grey mullet, haddock, halibut, herring, John Dory, lemon sole, mackeral, pilchards, plaice, red mullet, sardines, sea bass, trout, wild salmon.
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Fruit - Apples, apricots, blackberries, blackcurrants, blueberries, boysenberries, cherries, damsons, figs, gooseberries, greengages, Japanese wineberries, loganberries, melons, mirabelles, nectarines, peaches, pears, plums, raspberries, redcurrants, scottish raspberries, scottish strawberries, sloes, sunberries, tayberries, tomatoes, tummelberries, watermelons, wild strawberries.

Game - Grouse, hare, rabbit, woodpigeon

Herbs - Basil, fennel, rocket.

Meat - Lamb

Nuts - Cobnuts

Shellfish - Crab, crayfish, scallops

Vegetables - Artichokes, aubergines, beetroot, broad beans broccoli, carrots, cauliflower, celery, chantrelle mushrooms, courgettes, cucumber, fennel, french beans, garlic, girolle mushrooms, golden beetroot, leeks, lettuce, marrow, onion, peas, pepper, Pink Fir Apple Potatoes, radishes, Ratte new potatoes, runner beans, samphire, sorrell, spinach, squash, sweetcorn, watercress.