It’s hard to believe but even in the depth of winter there is an opportunity to buy ingredients which can make a huge difference to the flavour, smell and appearance of your cooking. Whether you’re looking to buy French ingredients or gourmet ingredients from around the world or right around the corner, thinking carefully about what you put into your cooking, and therefore onto your table and into your mouth is important for so many reasons.
Today it’s just too easy to be lazy, and admittedly when it’s cold outside, you have to scrape the frost from your car in the morning and it takes you twenty minutes to get all your coats, hats, boots, gloves, scarves and other paraphernalia on, it can be easy to be lazy.
But here’s a thought – rather than taking the lazy way out and just trudging to your local supermarket to buy ingredients which will be, at best, rather bland, ordinary and run of the mill, why not take an even lazier way out ..Read more






