Run them up

Runner beans!

Rush to your local food store and get some fresh runner beans!

As usual, the Eat the Seasons website launches recipes with the seasonal food of the week.

I would argue that any bean fits perfectly well with a salad.

I am hoping for some good-old-times-sake fishing tomorrow. Cross your fingers!

Blackberries, “vou dizer ao teu pai que já nAMORAS!”

I managed to pass last week’s food in season. If I recall it correctly, my guess is that it was broad beans, which are pretty awesome as well. Unfortunately – or just because my brainstorm on recipes did not move towards them – I haven’t bought any broad beans for this entire year. Maybe it is about time to change that. I am sure I am still on time to get pretty good ones.

In any case, this week is dedicated to one of my very favourite fruits – I LOVE BERRIES!!! Specially in they are dark: blueberries, black currants, blackberries, you name them and I eat them! Oh yeah, I love that dark, rough, bitter, overwhelming flavour…oh la la!

Funny enough, I bought the best blackberries ever on the day Eat the Seasons announced this week’s food. It was just by chance, believe. I saw them laying on the stand – with an extremely expensive price in the tag, but who cares? (that’s another issue I may possibly discuss in a near future) – and I just couldn’t resist. After a run, what better could I have asked for? I ate some and guess what, I froze the rest. I am that kind of person that always leaves the best to the end. By freezing berries in season (or any other fruit, for that matter), I can enjoy the best of them later in the year. Oh dear freezer, I guess you’ll get pretty full if I keep seeing these beauties around.

“– Gostas de amoras? Vou dizer ao teu pai que já namoras.”

– Epah, diz à vontade, porque eu AMO amoras!”

What's on the menu?

So, this week food of the season is plaice (a.k.a. solha em Português, or rødspætte på Dansk).

Enjoy this one on the grill, oven, or whatever you fancy. Grill some veggies of the season, and a berries ice-cream and I promise you will make a lot of friends (in case you do not have enough).

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