Top chefs will tell you that the secret to great cooking is great ingredients. Your first thoughts should be about what’s going to give you the richest and best quality flavours. Choose recipes to compliment the best ingredients available to you at any given point in time.
What's In Season this Winter for August
Rustic Rumblings: Hearty, humble, and flavoursome; earthy, enticing and familiar - "rustic food" is the kind of food that memories are made of - foods such as Seafood chowder, Ratatouille & Polenta; Terrines, Braised meats & Pot-au-feu; and desserts of Poached fruit and Tarte Tatin. Traditional familiar foods of breezy simplicity, but made with extraordinary care. Of course "Rustic food" is open to interpretation, but it has to remain something that diners can relate to. Above all else rustic food is rooted in its commitment to the integrity of the ingredients. This month be on the lookout for.
Fruits In Season for August
apples - fuji - lady williams - sundowner, cumquat, custard apple, grapefruit - yellow - pink, lemons, limes, mandarins - ellendale - imperial - murcot, nashi, oranges - blood - navel, pawpaw, pineapple - smooth leaf, pomelo, rhubarb, tangelo.
Vegetables In Season for August
asian greens - bok choy - choy sum - gai laan - wonga bok, avocados - fuerte - hass - sharwill, beetroot, broccoli, brussels sprout, cabbage, carrots, cauliflower, celeriac, celery, fennel, garlic, ginger, horseradish, jerusalem artichoke, kohlrabi, leeks, okra, olives, onions, parsnip, potato, pumpkin, shallot, silverbeet, spinach, swede, sweet potato, Truffles – black, turnip, witlof.