I am incredibly proud of the food around where we live and wanted to convey this to Mum and Dad when they came to visit. We decided to visit some of the local food shops to pick up some goodies for lunch.
To start, we headed to The Fromagerie where the very French fellow there recommended a nice mature cheddar and a Brie so ripe it melted before we got home! We also picked up a fresh loaf of 12 grain bread from there. We moved onto Da Mario, the Italian deli, for some ham and delicious kalamata olives and the fruit shop for some strawberries.
We then paid Sean at Highbury Vintners a visit and he helped us pick out a dozen wines (not all for lunch!) from around the world. This is something you don't really get in Australia, because it is a wine-producing country. One of the things I love about living in the UK is trying all the wines from different countries and different grapes that we don't get in Oz - the range is really extraordinary. He talked us into trying a Chapel Down white wine, which was very nice with our roast chicken the following week. Other highlights for me were the Tannant from Argentina - very tasty. We also picked out a classic Pinot Noir from Burgundy to go with our lunch.
We finally headed home to feast on our Blackstock Road treats, as well as my homemade chutney, some duck sausage we got from The French Show back in January and some fresh tomato. Yum!
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