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Selection of Winter Tomatoes

This beautiful selection of winter tomatoes are perfect for adding to salads, their colour and shape make a very impressive tomato platter.

Mar Azul (Marazul) a delicious variety of tomato with delicate blue, purple and pink tones with a fruity flavour, juicy with a scent of plum and green tomato.

Black Plum tomatoes with a rich, smoky-sweet flavour, ideal for making tomato sauce, however they are juicy enough to be eaten fresh. These tomatoes are very sweet with a meaty texture with few seeds.

Marmande tomatoes – a ribbed tomato, fleshy and juicy. Slightly tart, but sweet and fragrant. They will arrive with a green-ting, don’t wait for them to turn completely red; Marmande tomatoes ripen from the inside out, so some will remain slightly green on the outside even at their ripest.

Seville Oranges

We are coming to the end of the season so if you want to make one more batch of this delicious Marmalade you need to come in this week or better yet just ring and we can put them away for you.

Did you know you can freeze them whole for up to a year. So stock up whilst you can. We have put together a bag including recipe, oranges and lemons you will just need to add sugar and jam jars. Enough to make approx 5 jars.

Seville oranges are a bitter variety that are a cross between a pomelo and a mandarin, Seville oranges earned their name from Seville, Spain, where they were introduced from Asia during the 12th century and became a symbol for the city. There are more than 14,000 bitter orange trees that line the streets of Seville.

We have to say nothing beats homemade marmalade, if you haven’t tried it please have a go you will be a convert.

Fancy entering a marmalade completion Check out the British marmalade awards, this prestigious competition has entries from all over the world.

https://www.dalemain.com/competition-entry

Roscoff Onion

We have new season Roscoff onions this week, full of flavour and slightly sweet,

You’ve heard of rosé wine, but this is a rosé vegetable! Totally versatile, the Roscoff Onion can be used as a vegetable, a side-dish or as a condiment, raw or cooked. They are celebrated not just for their colour, but also for their unique flavour, their high vitamin C content and their long shelf-life. They won’t be around long you can add them to your box for £7.50, they come in a 1kg rope and will keep really well hung in a cool location.

Potted shrimp

Potted shrimps is a traditional English dish made with brown shrimp flavored with nutmeg and baked in butter. The butter acts as a preservative.  Regarded as a delicacy, it is traditionally eaten with bread. £5.50 per pot

We also have our usual fresh fare of Salmon, Cod, Plaice, Sea Bass, Tuna, Scallops, Smoked Haddock, Manx Kippers and Dressed Crab on our Seafood counter this week. To order go to our Fresh Fish section or ring the shop on 01457 852456.

This Week’s Cheese

Our cheese this week is our very popular Wookey Hole Farmhouse Cheddar, cave-aged in the Wookey Hole Caves in Somerset, England. Wrapped in cloth and taken to the heart of the caves where the cheese is matured at a constant temperature for up to six months.

This award-winning authentic handmade cheese is protected by PDO (Protected Designation of Origin), whereby it can be manufactured only in the counties of Dorset, Somerset, and Devon & Cornwall. Wookey Hole Farmhouse Cheddar is crumbly with earthy undertones and a distinctly nutty, tangy flavour. It pairs beautifully with our sourdough bread and Tracklements caramelised onion chutney 

Breakfast Box

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Looking for breakfast inspiration, then try our popular breakfast box which includes Kim’s homemade, all natural muesli, bursting with oats, coconut, almonds, cashews, cranberries, sultanas, pumpkin, sunflower, sesame seeds, natural puffed corn and cinnamon.

Blueberries

Raspberries

grapefruit x 2 or bananas

Large Longley Farm natural whole milk yoghurt 

£13.50