Kindly supplied by Wellocks
Wellocks of Lomeshaye, Lancashire, is a quality supplier of both fresh and dry ingredients that is sourced from all over the country and abroad, mainly from local producers and farms that take pride in what they produce.
Flavours of Europe
Let’s blow away the January cobwebs with a whirlwind tour of produce from Europe. We have a European extravaganza to get rid of the January blues this year, with a a culmination of what’s best from all parts of Europe to get you guys buzzing! Quality, freshness and flavour is what we have lined up for you. Let’s start with Italy - we have teamed up with an importer who is pulling out of three markets and is buying direct from growers and the difference is there for you to see in the pictures and in the taste!
Fennel - never seen it this good. Roquet - exquisite attention to detail here, all bunched together on wooden trays you will just want to eat it, but beware, what a peppery flavour!
Sicilian Leafy unwaxed Lemons, if you want juice and flavour then boy, these knock the Spanish for 6! Plus the leaves have so much oil and flavour to extract, a real winner £2.57 x 1 kilo. Now onto Spain - Escriggourmet must be the best orange grower bar none, from Valencia. We have the cream of Blood Oranges at £2.17 x 1 kilo flavour and colour is amazing! Over the border and into France and we start with the amazing Patte de Loupe apples these are what French chefs would use to cook with and yes you can eat them raw, you certainly won’t need to add sugar, flavour and colour blow the Bramley away!
The Jerusalem artichoke must be the star buy - fantastic quality and at only £5.85 x 5 kilo tray. Banana Shallots, again, they just don’t get any better £4.50 x 5 kilos and hard as iron. The choice of pears is yours with a firmer Comice at 41p each or juice heaven with the Passe Crassanne at 52p each. Back home now and England is showing the best Purple Sprouting Broccoli I have ever seen, £13.33 x 4.5 kilos. Yorkshires Gold - Tomlinson’s forced rhubarb is now at its best £20.00 x 6.3 kilos. More from Yorkshire with the micro button mushroom a great product you just cannot get from anywhere else, stunning £2.50 x 250g. Let’s move further up north now and over the wall to Scotland where we have the Anya (pink fir apple) Potatoes, a real nutty flavour that just look great on the plate. Amazing value at £10.30 x 10 kilos.
My pefect ingredients
Blood Oranges Very simply Escriggourmet do not harvest until the fruit is ready, they test for sugar content as well as colour. The result is every single fruit is jam-packed with juice and sweetness but aesthetically the colour spread inside is very even, with sharp red blasts in every segment, this is often not the case in cheaper options, so this colouration will certainly not happen! It is the anthocyanins and flavonoids which pigments the blood oranges with their crimson colour. Blood oranges also contain vitamin C in
