Yesterday’s posting produced a couple of comments about the Farmers’ Market so rather than respond with another comment it gets its own posting! I went to the market after getting back from the Bournemouth – Winchester run.

The items purchased were:-

From top left, Selsey Prawns. These are prawns but not the same prawns sold by the supermarkets and described as “from the North Atlantic”. Note the longer whiskers and the darker stripes on the body. The flavour of these prawns is stronger and the flesh is much more firm than ‘regular’ prawns. Winkles which were bought live and I than cooked them in water with the same salinity as sea water – 33g salt per litre of water. Honeycomb which I love and is useless from the supermarkets. Supermarket honeycomb is honeycomb which then has honey added which is from a totally different place, or even continent! Why do they do that? And organic corn on the cob from Secretts.

In addition I bought dry cure bacon and ate a cheese straw with wild garlic as my breakfast whilst walking round. Whilst eating the cheese straw with wild garlic I was curious to know what bit of wild garlic was in it. I tasted garlic but the only bit of wild garlic I ever use is the leaves and flowers and that is only during May. The leaves are great in stir frys or just as raw leaves added to a cheese sandwich. The flowers look pretty, and taste good, in a salad. I’ve never known wild garlic produce a bulb worth harvesting. However, I didn’t get back to the stall to ask :-(