Tuesday, September 27 2011 (Posted by Kerry)

Lovely new salads

Kate's Feast salad stallA lovely sunny day at the market on Saturday - and lots of even more lovely produce, (over-use of the word lovely? almost definitely..) but a bit of a highlight was Kate Hopkin's salad stall. Kate started at the market in April with her home-made salads which are ready to eat. Kate uses vegetables and sometimes fruit from the market to make a range of delicious salads.  The salads change with the seasons and reflect the produce on sale from the farmers' stalls around her.  Personal favourites include her beetroot and pumpkin seed salad and on Saturday she produced a new turnip salad based on her home-made turnip pickle using turnips from Sarah Green's farm in Essex.  Turnips are not one of my favourite vegetables but Kate's Parsley and Pink Pickled Turnip salad was a bit of a revelation..like a pink and less spicy version of Korean kimchi.  This week in the veg bag we have turnips and Kate has very generously given us her recipe to share with the box scheme members via the newsletter and on-line here

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