Duck egg omelette
This is the end of my first week of the Eating Local summer challenge and I’ve been very impressed with how Dave has managed. I haven’t actually done any of the cooking this time round, because of still being on crutches, and Dave says it’s actually been OK, although it’s a busy time of year for him and he was worried he wouldn’t be able to get all the right stuff. So what have we had these last few days?
• duck-egg omelette, which is much richer than the chicken-egg kind (eggs from the Hawthorn Farm stall at the Sunday Farmers’ Market) with spinach filling
• rhubarb and ginger compote (OK the ginger isn’t local, but spices are one of my exceptions!)
• lots of fantastic strawberries (so sweet they don’t need sugar)
• rabbit casserole
• baked potato with salad and spicy fried spring greens
• egg salad
• apple juice (Crone’s in Norfolk, which you can get from Arjuna in Mill Road.) There is apple juice to be had nearer (Coton Orchards, for example) but Arjuna is easiest for us to walk to. It is amazingly delicious and I can’t bear the thin supermarket kind these days.
I also enjoyed some local redcurrant jelly with the leftover pork and several meals of asparagus, which I like to make the most of while we’ve got it! (And thank goodness for my exceptions: rice cakes, gluten-free bread (eaten with delicious Lincolnshire Poacher butter from the Cambridge Farm Outlet Shop on Lensfield Road), spices and bananas. (Actually I didn’t mean to choose bananas – they chose me, as I couldn’t resist them after Dave bought them for himself.)
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