Summer overflows with the fruits of Christmas… mangoes, nectarines, peaches, plums, cherries and berries.

Although you may be used to enjoying many of these all year round, try them while in season. Select from local and preferably organic producers and see if you can taste the sunshine.

Anchovies - available salted all year round but have you tried them fresh during the late sprint/summer when they are mature and grown enough to fish.

Tomatoes  - “… the raw tomato, devoured in the garden when freshly picked, is a horn of abundance of simple sensations, a radiating rush in one’s mouth that brings with it every pleasure”. Excerpt from The Gourmet, Muriel Barbery’s latest novel.

Zucchini - super finely sliced and add raw to salads or equally delicious sautéed or steamed and teamed with new season beans whether they be flat, butter, snake, broad or regular green.

Apricots - fresh from the fruit bowl, in crumbles or tarts with end of season’s batch made into marmalades and jams.

Cherries - there are many different varieties which accounts for the different sizes and colours.  Regardless of appearance, these red beauties signal the coming of Christmas!

Blueberries, raspberries, strawberries - superfoods with super taste

Also in season…..

FRUIT bananas, lemons, lychees, pineapples, rockmelons, watermelons

VEGETABLES asparagus, beetroot, broccoli, cabbage, capsicum, cauliflower, celery, cucumbers, eggplant, leek, mushrooms, onions, peas, rhubarb, spinach, squash, corn on the cob

SEAFOOD Sydney and Hawkesbury rock oysters