Penny Golightly » seasonal food in December http://www.pennygolightly.com Money-saving tips and bargains. Who cares if we're broke, let's have fun anyway. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:31:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 PF Advent Day 2: Seasonal food in December http://www.pennygolightly.com/pf-advent-day-2-seasonal-food-in-december/ http://www.pennygolightly.com/pf-advent-day-2-seasonal-food-in-december/#comments Fri, 02 Dec 2011 08:30:54 +0000 Penny Golightly http://www.pennygolightly.com/?p=1902 Shop smart, buy in season and get your ingredients while they’re at their best and most plentiful. Tasty and cheap too? Yes please. My treats to myself this month will be a whole Vacherin Mont d’or cheese, and a box of clementines. Can’t wait to get down the market.

What’s good right now?

Fruit & nuts: almonds, apples, hazelnuts, pears from store, walnuts. Imported chestnuts, clementines, cranberries, dates, pineapples, pomegranates, satsumas.

Vegetables: asian greens, brussels sprouts and sprout tops, cardoons, celeriac, chicory, endive, Jerusalem artichokes, kale, leeks, parsnips, salsify and scorzonera, winter squash, red cabbage, seaweed, spring onions, swedes, turnips, white celery.

Fish and shellfish: brown hen crab, carp, conger eel, Dover sole, mackerel, mussels, native and rock oysters, sea bass, skate, turbot, whiting. You may wish to avoid anything that’s been overfished, such as skate.

Meat, poultry and game: goose, grouse, wild duck, partridge, pheasant, turkey, woodcock.

Cheeses: Stilton, Blue Wensleydale. Brie de Melun, Vacherin Mont d’Or.

What are you going to buy? Any good seasonal recipes that use these ingredients? Please share them.

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Fruit & nuts: almonds, apples, hazelnuts, pears from store, walnuts. Imported chestnuts, clementines, cranberries, dates, pineapples, pomegranates, satsumas.

Vegetables: asian greens, brussels sprouts and sprout tops, cardoons, celeriac, chicory, endive, Jerusalem artichokes, kale, leeks, parsnips, salsify and scorzonera, winter squash, red cabbage, seaweed, spring onions, swedes, turnips, white celery.

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Fish and shellfish: brown hen crab, carp, conger eel, Dover sole, mackerel, mussels, native and rock oysters, sea bass, skate, turbot, whiting. You may wish to avoid anything that’s been overfished, such as skate.

Meat, poultry and game: goose, grouse, wild duck, partridge, pheasant, turkey, woodcock.

Cheeses: Stilton, Blue Wensleydale. Brie de Melun, Vacherin Mont d’Or.

Time to hit the market then… What are you going to cook?

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