NOVEMBER MENU PLANNER
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Italian produce is highly recommended at this time of year. The products below will be available throughout Autumn. Citrus fruits are also a highlight in November.
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November marks the end of the main UK growing season. Highlights are generally crops coming from store, such as apples and pears and root crops. Out in the fields, brassicas are at their best in the cold weather.
Apples & Pears
Braeburn apple
Comice pear
Conference pear
Cox apple
Russet appleRoot Vegetables
Beetroots (golden, candy, red)
Carrots
Jerusalem artichokesBrassicas
Brussel sprouts & tops
Cavolo Nero
Kalettes
Spring GreensOther
Rainbow chard
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This is not a good month for berries. The UK and European season is over. Strawberries are not at their best. The following are available if needed.
Currants.
Strawberries.
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Apples & pears (see list above)
Lovita red-flesh plums
Kaki fruit (a.k.a. Persimmon / Sharon Fruit)
Pomegranates
Prickly Pears
Quince
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Cime di Rapa
Puntarelle
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Ceps
Chanterelle (grey and yellow leg)
Trompette
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Crab Apples
Meddlars
Mustard greens
Scots Pine
Sloes
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Chestnuts
Prickly pears
Delica squash
Tokyo turnip
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Amalfi lemons (video)
Apples
Beetroots (golden, candy, red)
Bergamot (video)
Black skin watermelon (video)
Blood orange (video)
Brussel sprouts & tops
Borlotti beans (video)
Buddha’s Hand citrus (video)
Calico artichoke (video)
Cardoon (video)
Carrots
Catalogna
Cavolo Nero
Celtuce (video)
Ceps
Chanterelle
Chervil root (video)
Chestnuts
Chocolate orange (video)
Cime di Rapa
Citrus (Amalfi lemon, bergamot, Buddha’s Hand, cedro, clementines, combava, kumquats. pomelo, sudachi, yuzu)
Chocolate orange (video)
Cobnut (video)
Crosnes (video)
Courgette flower (video)
Damsons (video)
Discovery apple (video)
Elderberry (video)
Elderflower (video)
Frizeline (video)
Gariguette strawberry (video)
Gooseberry (video)
Hops (video)
Jersey Royals (video)
Jerusalem artichokes
Kaki fruit (a.k.a. Persimmon / Sharon Fruit) (video)
Kalettes (video)
Kalibos cabbage (video)
Kissabel apples (video)
Kumquat (video)
Lautrec garlic (video)
Lavender (video)
Lemon verbena (video)
Lobster mushroom (video)
Lychee on the branch (video)
Miyagawa clementines (video)
Parsley root
Pears
Pertuis asparagus (video)
Pink radicchio (video)
Pomegranates
Pineberry (video)
Prickly Pears
Prima grape (video)
Puntarelle
Oca
Quince (video)
Radicchios (Castelfranco, grumolo, pink, rose, Tardivo)
Radish
Rainbow Chard
Red flesh plum (video)
Red lemon (video)
Reine Claude (video)
Rosehips (video)
Seville orange (video)
Spikey artichoke (video)
Spring Greens
Strasberry (video)
Tangelolo (video)
Tarocco orange (video)
Tardivo radicchio (video)
Tiger lemon (video)
Tomatoes ( Camone, Datterini, Marinda)
Trompette
Yellow flesh peach (video)
Walnut (video)
White asparagus (video)
Wild asparagus (video)
Vesuvio tomato (video)
This list is designed to assist with forward planning for your menus. Expand each category to find out more …
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