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Farmers Markets : Caroline Wright 16 May 2009

11:28am Monday 18th May 2009


WHETHER you use a disposable box, a kettle one with a lid, or a giant, gaspowered permanent feature, it can’t have escaped your notice that the barbecue season has well and truly started.

If you haven’t fired one up in your garden so far this year, I’m pretty sure you will have caught a waft of something delicious being cooked in someone else’s back garden over the last few weekends. So why not get your apron on, invite a few friends or family over and get cooking outside.

There is no better place to buy your barbecue meat from your local Worcestershire Farmers’ Market. Head to Malvern today for a great seletion from a variety of stallholders – Gordon Tudge, Rochford Country Meats, Eye Game Larder, Elmore Farm Foods and Vicarage Fruit Farm are all there today and each has a wide choice of meats.

Henry Wormington, of Vicarage Fruit Farm, said: “We have lamb, lamb and mint and lamb and redcurrant sausages, as well as dry, cured macon.”

Macon is ‘bacon’, but made from mutton – and it is beginning to prove very popular.

The beauty of the barbecue is, of course, that you can cook pretty much anything on it – it doesn’t have to be fancy, just make sure it is properly cooked through. Steaks, sausages and burgers are your barbecue staples – but you can be a little more adventurous if you want.

Brush your meat with some home-made marinade before you slap it on the heat – or even cook it with some herbs and sauce in a little tinfoil.

A good tip, if you are cooking something fatty, is to put it on a bit of tinfoil to begin to catch the oil/fat, then discard the foil and residue when you want to put your food directly on the heat to finish it off. This will help prevent your barbecue ‘flaring up’ while you’re busy over turning things over.

Lots of vegetables go really well on the barbecue, too. Try par boiling baby new potatoes then making a bag out of some tinfoil, add a little olive oil, seasoning and some fresh rosemary and pop it on the barbecue. You can use the same technique for most vegetables.

A lovely salad goes really well with a barbie – Akiki Organics has an interesting selection of salad leaves on its stall.

This weekend’s farmers’ market is in Abbey Road, Malvern, from 9am until 2pm today.

Over the bank holiday weekend there is a market at St Peter’s Garden Centre, Norton, near Worcester, on Saturday, and at the Pershore and Evesham asparagus festivals on Monday.

For more information go to wfmg.co.uk.


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