Friday market

There’s a stall at the market that sells locally grown flowers, along with all locally grown vegetables. Some I’m not certain I know how to cook, but I know over time I will discover some recipes. This week there was a ‘radis noir’. It looked a bit like salsify, but fatter than I’d seen them before, so not quite sure if you treat them the same. This week though I wanted to buy baby turnips, beetroot, some bright shiny green peppers, a few leeks and the last of the sunflowers. I got these for all less than 10 euros. Oh, and I/2 kilo of garlic, which was 3 euros.

The peppers will be fried off with lots of olive oil to accompany a piece of faux fillet (sirloin), and the turnips and beetroot will be roasted with our farm fresh, organic chicken on Sunday. What we don’t eat I will make into a delicious soup.

Lunch was fresh bread and cheese, and dinner was leek risotto

The sunflowers bring a flush of colour and sunshine into the salle à manger. We’re hanging on to summer for another week yet!