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APRIL 2024

Not mush-room for anything else!

Cheering up your plate with the best of spring’s fruit & veg

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APRIL 2024

Hello!

Spring has finally sprung. April can be a month of surprises – you can be fooled one day, only to be caught out by an unexpected downpour the next! – and it brings with it the best of spring’s fruit and vegetables.

This month, asparagus and artichokes are at their peak, along with purple sprouting broccoli, curly kale, radishes, watercress and the arrival of coriander from Cherry Tree Farm – all helping to cheer up our plates!

And while we’re not quite yet into the plentiful months of summer, we can still enjoy a colourful array of fruits including blueberries, leafy oranges, pears, plums and our favourite, indoor rhubarb.

Let’s not forget it’s also the month we celebrate St. George’s Day (23rd April) and the long-awaited, albeit short, season of the delicious St. George’s mushroom.

Happy April!

Best,
The County Supplies Team

The Market Chef

The Market Chef

Our Market Chef series is a celebration of how to cook with the best seasonal produce.

This month, one of our favourite chefs, Great British Menu’s Ryan Stafford serves up two delicious dishes featuring the best this season has to offer – British asparagus from Portwood Farm in Norfolk and the most sought-after new potato, the Jersey Royal.

Let’s get cooking!

English Asparagus, Salsa Romesco & Leafy Lemon Aioli
Taking full advantage of the upcoming asparagus season, we’re plating up a Mediterranean twist on the traditional asparagus and hollandaise sauce. Tasty!

Jersey Royals with Gold Top Crème Fraîche, Chives & Exmoor Caviar
A firm spring favourite of ours – the Jersey Royal. Available from March through to July, their distinctive nutty flavour makes them a true seasonal highlight. We’re serving them up with crème fraîche, chives and a side dish of caviar (because we’re worth it!).

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Vegetables

  • Agria potatoes English
  • Asparagus Wye Valley & Portwood Farm, English
  • Black cabbage Italian & Spanish
  • Broccoli Spanish
  • Cime di rapa Italian
  • Courgette Spanish
  • Curly kale English & Spanish
  • Hispi cabbage Portuguese
  • Jersey Royal potatoes Jersey
  • Jersey Mids potatoes Jersey
  • Jerusalem artichokes French
  • Mixed Chantenay carrots Fresh Gro, Spanish
  • Orange Chantenay carrots Fresh Gro, Spanish
  • Pale aubergines Italian
  • Pumpkin French
  • Puntarella Italian
  • Purple sprouting broccoli Portwood Farm, English
  • Rainbow chard Italian
  • Romanesco French
  • Salsify French
  • Sandy carrots French
  • Savoy cabbage English & French
  • Tokyo turnips Italian
  • Turnips English
  • Watercress Alre Farm, English
the best of

Fruits

  • Blackberries Mexican
  • Blood oranges Italian
  • Blueberries South African
  • Conference pears Belgian
  • Figs Brazilian
  • Fraises des bois French & Spanish
  • Gariguette strawberries French
  • Green & white grapes South African
  • Heritage tomatoes French & Spanish
  • Leafy oranges Italian
  • Nardicots Moroccan
  • Passe Crassane pears French
  • Plums South African
  • Quince Turkish
  • Raspberries Moroccan
  • Rhubarb (indoor) Wye Valley, English
  • Strawberries Dutch & Belgian
  • Watermelon Costa Rican
the best of

Salad

  • Baby mixed leaf G’s Farm, Spanish
  • Castelfranco Italian
  • Cos lettuce G’s Farm, Spanish
  • Cucumbers Spanish
  • Rainbow radish French & Dutch
  • Red baby gem G’s Farm, Spanish
  • Tardivo Italian
  • Treviso Italian
  • Wild rocket Italian
  • Winter tomatoes Italian

arriving

  • Almonds Lebanon & French
  • Borlotti beans Italian
  • Coriander Cherry Tree Farm, English
  • St. George’s mushrooms English
  • Truffles (white) Italian
  • Truffles (black) Australian

departing

  • Winter truffles
  • Monk’s Beard Italian
  • Braeburn apples English
  • Royal gala apples English
  • Conference pears English
  • Strawberries Spanish
the best of

wild foods

From the sea
  • Alexander buds
  • Fresh seaweed – English & Scottish
  • Salty fingers
  • Sea beet
  • Sea purslane
Wild mushroom
  • Morels – Turkish
  • Pied de Mouton
  • Trompette
Foraged
  • Douglas fir
  • Hay
  • Juniper branches
  • Scots pine
  • Three-cornered garlic
  • Wild garlic (foraged)
April

Top Insights

It’s April and that mean’s one thing…the arrival of St. George’s mushrooms. The first of the large edible fungi to appear, the name derives from St. George’s Day (23rd April) – the date when this delicious mushroom can usually be found in the UK. But be quick, folks! They have a short season of just 6 weeks.

With the days now getting lighter and (hopefully) warmer too, we’ll soon start to see the arrival of English asparagus including the best in the business from Portwood Farm in Norfolk.

We’ve also started to see Dutch peppers and cucumbers on the market. However, this month, we’ll be working with our Spanish growers before we move over to our English and Dutch growers for the start of the salad season at the beginning of May.

British strawberry season will shortly be fast upon us too. We’re expecting the season to commence between the end of May and beginning of June. However, in the meantime, we’ll soon be moving away from Spanish strawberries before switching to Dutch and Belgian varieties and then onto British.

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A-Z Seasonal Guide
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From avocados to zucchinis, you’ll discover all the information you need to create delicious seasonal menus. It’s your complete guide to all-year round seasonality – coming soon, exclusively at County Supplies!

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