This week's market report from Wild Harvest features girolles, chestnuts and oca tuber as well as a whole host of other fruit and vegetables currently in season which you can see below:

Wild Mushrooms & Truffles

Girolles are being flown in from the US and are big and fully hydrated (let’s face it, wet).

If they don’t float your boat we have a good supply of European girolles frozen professionally at their peak.

We may get some noteworthy Portuguese mushrooms  soon, but this crop  is not to be counted on.

I marvelled this year that we were still getting baby girolles from Russia in November. It’s a summer line in essence.

France holds onto grey legged autumn chanterelle, as does Turkey with trompette and Spain with pied de mouton.

As the ground frosts kick in and we emerge ourselves in celebrations it’s truffles we turn to for thrills.

This week we are seeing the first black winter truffles from Italy and Perigord.

Whilst they peak in January the early specimens do have a nose and a light marbling.

White truffles are excellent and are fully ripe.

These edible Italian gems normally have the good manners to fruit until new year’s eve before hitting a quieter phase of their lifecycle.

Fruits

Fresh chestnuts abound, as do a myriad of preparations.

We for example sell them peeled and frozen, peeled and cooked, in various pastes & purees, confited, freeze dried, in flour form and in aromas.

Cranberries are in good nick.

Comice pears have been superb this year and