Monday 15 March 2010

PSB

I love Easter because hot cross buns with a slice of montys inside like a sandwich is the best breakfast/snack/midnight feast ever. And I never otherwise buy them. Like buying in season really, but sadly those awful supermarkets have them all year round which kind of ruins the excitement of March. (Queen LizzyI would have been appalled having banned bakers from making the popular 'Catholic' buns apart from at Easter and ??? Christmas). And you need something to look forward to in March because the only real 'seasonal' food in March worth talking about is psb (purple sprouting broccoli).
For a lunchtime snack have half a plateful with scrambled egg (from your friend with chickens or organic free range ones from a local farm, try a good local deli rather than Waitrose though). And do eat the leaves, they are full of flavour. You might not see leaves, however, if you buy your psb from M& S or similar as they cut them off because they look a little bit ugly. Sometimes ugly can be very tasty......