Island Life Magazine Ltd August/September 2007 | Page 117

FOOD & DRINK life What’s in season? What’s best to eat during August & September? During the summer months there is an abundance of wonderful ingredients available from your local farmers, farm shops and markets. Fruits: strawberries, gooseberries and raspberries, plums, rhubarb, gauges and peaches and some Islanders are even managing to produce figs Vegetables: superb runner beans, Broad beans, green peas, tomatoes, courgettes, aubergines with beetroot and squashes showing up later into September. Salads: roquette, mizuna, watercress, chard, bulls’ blood, mustard, radish leaf, plus the usual array of Romano, little gem, and more common varieties of lettuce Island Life - www.islandlife.tv Fish: Mike Curtis of the Captain Stan will be catching turbot, plaice, black bream, red mullet, mackerel and bass. And the fabulous lobsters are a must for that special dinner. Meat: wood pigeon If the sun does ever come out get that bbq Fired up and get grilling some fabulous I.O.W. meat!! Nothing new has come to my attention this month apart from the awful weather but if you are a food producer on the island and would like to introduce me to your new products then email me at: [email protected] and I would be more than happy to consider them for this section of food and drink 117