May is the month when seasonal food gets really colourful, with peas, carrots and cherries coming into season, along with aubergines and rocket. The first of the new potatoes arrive.
Elderflower
Italian Borlotti Beans
UK Gooseberry
Italian Super Sweet Watermelon
Early Season Peaches
OX-Heart Tomato (FR-SP-IT)
Still lots more of the UK grown Produce to enjoy
Apricot Start of the northern hemisphere season.
Bok Choi Lancashire grown.
Broad Beans Start of UK season at the end of the month.
Easy Peel Start of the southern hemisphere variety.
UK Lettuce Supply of Cheshire Lettuces begins, runs May- November.
Morel Mushrooms UK Morels available now.
Peas (fresh) First month of the short UK and Italian season.
Peppers Start of the Dutch season replacing Spanish.
UK Spinach Available until October, both Baby and Long Leaf.
Tomatoes Start of the Dutch season replacing Spanish.
Easy Peelers
UK Morels
UK Fresh Peas
Pineapple Tomato
UK WYE VALLY Asparagus
New Season Apricot
As the seasons come and go around the world, the weather changes and so does the type of produce that grows.
To put it simply, eating seasonally tastes better, cost effective, more environmental and over all It has more nutrients!
Fresh Cherries
Jersey Royal Potatoes
Fresh Green Almond
UK Out-Door Rhubarb
Nectatines
Wild Nettles
Quick Notes:
Alert, Peppers will be pricey for the next few weeks as we are switching to the Dutch season replacing Spanish.
once the Dutch supply become more consistence, the price will drop back to normality.
Still Around:
Asparagus, English Sourced from farms in Staffordshire, Cheshire and the Wirral.
Beetroot Good bunched and loose Beetroot from UK.
Cauliflower Cornish or Lancashire, getting bigger as the weather gets better.
Celeriac Good quality UK and Dutch supply.
Onions Small, medium or large, beautiful flavour set skin.
Red Cabbage Increasing in price as UK old season finishes and new begins.
Rhubarb Cheshire supply available, will be moving shortly to the Out-Door.
Strawberry Beautiful Cheshire & Staffordshire El Santa variety.
Spring Green Cabbage Beautiful loose leafy heads, dark green all Lancashire grown.
End of Season:
Artichoke, Globe Popular product sourced from across the UK.
Chantenay Carrots Last month for UK, Israeli substitute, UK quality can be suspect.
Leeks UK supply ends for 2 months, Dutch, French and Belgian alternative.
Potatoes, main crop Finishing soon, can experience size and price issues.
Purple Sprouting Broccoli Finished until September.
Swede UK season ends all supplies coming from storage for 6-8 weeks.
When your passion is the creation of memorable dishes, you understand the importance of working with the best possible ingredients.
Here at Chef’s Choice, we understand that too. That’s why we are ideally placed to supply your fruit, vegetables and other produce.
Please give us a call on 02045052692 to speak with one of our experts or email us on sales@chefschoicefruits.com
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