France, is well known for it’s open air market where you can buy freshly produced food. Britain is less well known for them unless you live in more rural areas and a Saturday farmers market is readily available.
Last night I popped into the Coven Garden fresh food market, as it only run during August, so it’s worth a special trip into London. I wanted to see how close it resembled the French markets I’ve been to in Paris and Provence.
It wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t exactly great either. More an ‘eat- here’ type market than a buy fresh and take home type market, which disappointed me. I was looking for fresh bread, cheese, grapes, olives (I did find those), and other easy table food that I could buy and use at home for the weekend.
So, no courgette flowers, but they did have lovely mushrooms. Porcini mushrooms being one of my favourites, I was able to buy 100g of them for a wonderful pasts dish to be cooked on the weekend. I also found Girolle and Oyster mushrooms which I was happy to buy. There is nothing better than that fresh, taste of the earth that comes out of the stew you’ve cooked with fresh Girolle mushrooms thrown in, in the last 2 minutes of cooking.
When I’ really lazy, I throw together a pasta Carbonara, and add a few Porcini mushrooms, and eat watchingtelevision. That lovely fresh aroma of musty earth and, creamy sauce and salty ham is heaven! Of course it’s a real bonus if it's a quiet room and I get control of the remote!
Ahhhh... we can dream......
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