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If only we had this kind of quality food merchandise available locally in the UK.
I don’t mean johnny come lately trendy faux vintage stores in Marylebone High St, but real local stores like these.
The problem is also that when we did have them in the past, not only was the produce sold bland and uninspiring in general, but the service was often grudgingly performed in that uniquely British way.
The closest thing to fresh produce suppliers now are the local ethnic stores. For the rest of us, who needs 10 stalks of Jamie Oliver packaged flat leaf parsley for £1.29 or the distinctly non-fresh pasta that passes for the real thing in the local superstore?
I mean, just look at those lettuces in the photo above.
We have a pretty nice farmer’s market in Little Rock, and are apparently getting a second local organic market in North Little Rock. That’s cool, because that means that I’ll get all sorts of great fresh veggies to play with. I plan to get a Community Supported Agriculture basket subscription this year, which is a weekly basked full of local produce, whatever’s in season.
Right now, it’s ‘garden porn’ catalog season, and I just got my Park Seed Company catalog, with all sorts of interesting veggies to put in the garden. There’s even a teensy little single serving bok choy, that I think I’ll try out. So, I’ll have a combination of home grown and market produce to choose from. Spring can’t come soon enough!
Oh, and I found some XO Sauce in my Asian grocery- which I plan to try with that scallop recipe. I almost got the extra hot one, but careful reading of the labels saved me from getting my teeth melted.
Happy New Year!
Yes, the extra hot XO sauce is rather hot! You can also add XO sauce to anything, and that bok choy would be nice with the scallops too…Enjoy and let me know how it turns out!