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This week Virgil celebrates an old favouirte of mine - black boy peaches.  I love these often hard to find peaches and they are delicious when paired with the new flattos - find out more in  The boys are back in town. 

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New recipes are soon to be show cased but in the meantime our newest additions are courgette loaf. lemon blueberry loaf and peach tart.
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Happy Cooking,

 

Loving Food

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The boys are back in town

Virgil Evetts

And as we bid a fond adieu to another summer (technically speaking anyway, still plenty hot around my neck of the woods), the final flurry of fruitfulness arrives on shop shelves.  Among the season’s last orders are some of its very finest, including my all-time favourite summer fruit- the Black Boy peach.

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A taste of Malaysia

The KL wet markets are amazing with an  abundance of tropical fruits, herbs and vegetables.  I buy myself a sizeable bag of mangosteen, learn how to succesfully open them and then trawl through the 30 degree morning peeling off snow white petals of delicate tropical sweetness.

Tray after tray of prawns, baby octopus and other exotic seafood are interspersed with trays of chickens - all basking unrefrigerated in the 30 degree heat.   With this in mind I think I would prefer the chickens that are hauled from cages and decapitated to order.

 

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