Archive for August, 2006

Mangoes

Saturday, August 19th, 2006

Actually, nothing at all to do with market, but a general grumble about my inability to get the stone out of a mango without dragging half the flesh with it.
How do they do it in restaurants? Or is it a variety thing like the strawberries we get these days in the shops that never give [...]

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The basics

Saturday, August 19th, 2006

This weekend, we have the International Market in Montague Street, Worthing. We bought some essentials:
Bread…

Cheese:

and Garlic

and one or two other things to get us through the weekend, including black pudding and chorizo. But more about them later.

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Wildebeest update

Sunday, August 6th, 2006

Taste? Very nice. Like (beef) steak.
Tenderness? Akin to shoe leather.
Not something I’m desperate to try again.

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Where do you buy decent cheese round here?

Sunday, August 6th, 2006

One of the big things missing in Worthing food-wise is a place that sells a range of decent cheese. Good quality stuff that’s in great condition and ready to put on the cheeseboard.
This weekend, I’ve discovered that the Village Deli in Ferring fits the bill. The Camembert, in particular was great – really ripe and [...]

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Char-grilled lamb fillet with coriander salsa verde

Sunday, August 6th, 2006

Not wholly orginal this one – I stole from a number of sources for the meat, including Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Elizabeth David and The River Café. And the salsa verde reflects the contents of my fridge – a whacking bag of coriander, and none of the usual flat-leaf parsley and basil.
The whole thing worked very well. [...]

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