Ingredients worth spending more on.
Discussion
Last night we roasted together butternut squash, heritage tomatoes and massive cloves of garlic from a local farm shop. Divine. The garlic cloves were huge and fragrant compared to the tiny ones you get for 35p in a supermarket and the tomatoes were so sweet and zingy. Not sure the butternut squash tasted any different however.
In future I will be buying expensive garlic when I can find it (I am sure Waitrose probably stocks it...). It got me thinking - are there other ingredients that are worth spending more on, and which are not?
In future I will be buying expensive garlic when I can find it (I am sure Waitrose probably stocks it...). It got me thinking - are there other ingredients that are worth spending more on, and which are not?
Everything M&S sells its miles better quality than anywhere else. So I get everything from there. Huge carrots compared to the squishy tiny ones Tesco do, non stringy chicken breast compared to the dross co op do, and the bakery section. Well that’s just awesome.
Sausages especially are always worth spending more for.
Sausages especially are always worth spending more for.
Proper marinated Feta,the stuff Greeks store in tins.
Farm shop strawberries,raspberries. Not the plasti-tent flavourless sh*te widely available. On that subject anyone know where to get tomatoes that taste like Greek/Italian full flavour jobs ? (have no garden so can't grow my own).
Butcher thick cut smoked bacon.
Sourdough loaf from your new hoity toity hippy bakers. Although I can't indulge anymore,my stomach blows up like a space hopper (yet another avenue of pleasure deleted ...)
Farm shop strawberries,raspberries. Not the plasti-tent flavourless sh*te widely available. On that subject anyone know where to get tomatoes that taste like Greek/Italian full flavour jobs ? (have no garden so can't grow my own).
Butcher thick cut smoked bacon.
Sourdough loaf from your new hoity toity hippy bakers. Although I can't indulge anymore,my stomach blows up like a space hopper (yet another avenue of pleasure deleted ...)
NormalWisdom said:
They are not that price in France for sure!!
From memory, they were €12-€15 a bird.I still got the local cornfed, freerange chickens for half that price though, and even though it was my birthday and I was s
tfaced drunk, I managed to barbecue them without killing anyone 
The best tasting lamb I have ever eaten comes from a villager who raises Jacob x Hebridean on the hill behind the pub in Coldharbour, Surrey.
It's £15/Kg for a leg but it is so worth it.
She sells the skins too, and they're lovely: https://www.facebook.com/TheRamSheepskins/?nr
It's £15/Kg for a leg but it is so worth it.
She sells the skins too, and they're lovely: https://www.facebook.com/TheRamSheepskins/?nr
Truckosaurus said:
Tomatoes grown in people's back gardens/greenhouses actually taste of something compared to supermarket ones.
Given that it's the same plant and growing process, I've often wondered where all the flavour goes with supermarket tomatoes. Home grown tomatoes are epic in comparison!warp9 said:
Truckosaurus said:
Tomatoes grown in people's back gardens/greenhouses actually taste of something compared to supermarket ones.
Given that it's the same plant and growing process, I've often wondered where all the flavour goes with supermarket tomatoes. Home grown tomatoes are epic in comparison!Gassing Station | Food, Drink & Restaurants | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff