Friday 26 June 2009

British soft fruit

This is without a doubt one of the best times of the year for buying British produce in supermarkets! On a recent trip to my local supermarket, I found strawberries, blackberries and raspberries in the fruit section and aubergines and courgettes in the vegetable section, all grown in Britain.

I'll come to the vegetables in a later post, but for now I want to talk about the fruit. I always think that soft fruit grown n Britain tastes better, which I think is simply because it hasn't had to be shipped or flown a great distance to get here. Or, it could just be that we grow different varieties of fruit here, I don't know. But, I do know that it tastes great and that's the main thing!
I like to eat fruit with my breakfast and a great way to do that is to blend the fruit up with some natural yogurt and have it with some kind of cereal in place of milk. Here, I have rinsed the strawberries, blackberries and raspberries and then added them to around four or five large dessert spoons of natural yogurt. Blend this all together briefly – I don't like it to get too smooth, I think it should still have identifiable bits of fruit in it. Then, simply pour over a bowl of cereal, in this case I'm using an oat and honey cereal. You could add some sugar if you want, I didn't because of the honey already in the cereal I'm using.
That's it! Something very simple, but hopefully it'll inspire you to go out and buy British soft fruit while you can. Remember, it's a relatively short season...

3 comments:

PurestGreen said...

I've been hitting the Edinburgh farmer's market for strawberries. I look forward to them being in season each year and can'get get enough.

Dr. B said...

Thanks for the comment! I know what you mean, I think strawberries are one of (if not THE) best fruits. Well, when they are in season anyway.

Dr. B said...

Actually, if your in the Edinburgh area, Lowe's Fruit Farm (EH22 1RS) is quite good for pick you own. I've picked fruit from there to make jam - it's a little bit expensive, but really good fun, both the picking and the jam making! I'm sure there are other pick your own places around there, but I've only been to this one.