It started a couple of weeks ago but due to prior commitments I couldn't make until this week. It was a beautiful sunny autumnal day for a little mooch around the stalls, it is not huge but there is enough good quality stalls to be worth the trip. A few meat based ones, a couple of bread stalls, vegetables - common and some unusual stuff and a few specialising in chutneys, cheese, garlic and cakes plus an independent coffee stall too.
First stop was for a coffee, which was disappointing - slightly grainy at first which may have been the chocolate sprinkles but became nicer and smoother the more you drank, only to become grainy again towards the bottom.
We wasn't sure what we wanted so had a little walk round and then went around again (it only takes 5 minutes). I spotted some good looking pork ribs and remembering we had a spice kits for BBQ Memphis pork thought I would grab them, it was £7 and there were loads of them from Roundwood Orchard Pig Company.
Mat has his eye on a pie from Wildflour Bakery so we went for a chicken and mushroom one to share for a lunch, and then decided to grab some vegetables to go with it. I had my eye on some unusual purple carrots so grabbed them with some broccoli. I didn't expect the purple carrots to still be orange inside - they tasted like sweet regular carrots but did add another unexpected colour to our lunch.
We had run out of chutney so we tried some at the Isle Of Wight Garlic Farm stall and settled on one with apricots, garlic and ginger to compliment the chicken pie. They also sold garlic butter, smoked garlic and elephant garlic.
Our friend Chris picked up some celeriac and bacon to make a soup.
On the way back we popped into The Kitchener, West Hampstead's kitchen shop and grabbed a Typhoon griddle pan - something which I have quite fancied for a while and as we have Jamie Oliver latest cookbook - 15 minute meals - quite a crucial piece of kits for most of the recipes.
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