Healthy Henry

Creative vegetable harvest festival figure at Lincoln Cathedral courtesy of Uncle Henry's Farmshop and Cafe based north of Lincoln

Making of a Buddha Bowl

 Healthy bowls of veggie good stuff - Buddha Bowls - at Feastival

Pret's Rainbow

 Pret's Rainbow Veggie Pot

Street Food Display

 

 Fabulous salad presentation at Ethiopian Merkamo street food stall in Spitalfields

 The platters sell themselves - The Green Plate, The Half and Half Plate - and the overall look is first rate.

Chilled & Healthy

Roasted Rainbow vegetable salad at Leon - sweet potato, courgette, red and yellow pepper.

Trendy Salads

EAT's new salad bowls - Harissa Chicken and 'Riced' Cauliflower Salad or Quinoa & Rainbow Veg Salad - right on trend.

Cafe Deli

 Home made cakes at Field Kitchen Cafe and Deli, Nettlebed.  @Thefieldkitchen

Plus fruit and vegetables for sale that add ambiance and  are an effective storage solution given the small kitchen.

 Kiwi owners Dave and Barb are right on the money and say that there are many cafes like this down under.  Very best wishes with finding their second site.

Going Green

Vegetable juices are the cold drink phenomenon at trade shows and now on cafe shelves.  Savse's broccoli, pear, spinach, kale, kiwi, lemon and banana drink. Vegesentials have celery, apple and kale juice in the green bottle below and more half fruit/half vegetable juices and smoothies at http://www.vegesentials.co.uk/

Pain Quotidien has their '1 a Day' Green Juice of swiss chard, celery, apple, orange, lime and ginger.

Drink Your Greens

Apple, cucumber, celery, spinach, lime and ginger juice in the green.
Apple, carrot, beetroot and ginger in the red.

 Pret's £3.49 veggie wonders produced in Portugal.

Wow Display

Guest Spot

Photos from an Israeli supermarket sent in by Jane Cox, Glendoick Garden Centre Cafe & Food Hall.  
Will we see something similar at her award-winning site in Perth?

Kid Appeal

 Good kids offer at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew by caterer Peyton & Byrne

 Healthy options with planty of eye appeal

Blaming Your Tools

Guest Spot

Ever wondered how the Italians prepare courgettes with a hole?!  You try stuffing a zucchini without the right implement.  This corer is the only way to do the job. Thanks Maurizio for finding one.

When in Rome

Wine from the vat

 Courgette flowers and artichokes in season (April)

Kitchen Garden Food

The Pig in the (New) Forest proclaims its rooms and kitchen garden food.  The Kitchen Garden really delivers - see our Pinterest board http://pinterest.com/turpinsmale/the-pig-kitchen-garden-december-2012/ to see just some of what was growing in early December.

Ollie the Head Kitchen Gardener is full of passion for his subject - we will hear more of this young man and the whole subject of real restaurant kitchen gardening.  Out of town cafes and restaurants serious about their food should be taking note of what is going on here.

Innovation and experimentation is much in evidence.  The Crosne Chinese Artichoke was new to us with its excellent crunchy water chestnut taste.