August

Especially in the region of production that the apricot is the best.

Like all stone fruit apricot ripens only after picking. To avoid disappointment, taste the fruit before you buy.

The dried apricot consumed more in winter is used in many preparations, sweet or salty. The best dried apricots from Turkey.

It suffices to rehydrate in warm water or a tea light, before cooking.

Enjoy the blue d'Auvergne is the best taste of summer and autumn. Still wrapped in foil, choose a farmhouse cheese made from raw milk not pasteurized.

On the shelves prefer a cucumber field, grown and sold by the growers. You will find them until fall.

The better the semi-acute short, it looks like a big pickle, it is perfect for cooking. Unlike the long cucumber grown in greenhouses, rather bland and waterlogged.

It will keep several days in a cool, while "greenhouse" is ridente and soften quickly. Write to drain salt cucumbers in the open, after seeded. Wring them strongly in a cloth. You will have the pleasure of tasting cucumbers crunchy to perfection.

Wrap the part of a cucumber started with a food film, he has the annoying habit of communicating its taste to other foods.

Courgettes have look on the stalls of the market, choose the small size, firm and without tasks brunâtres.Rincez them and do not peel for cooking.
The variety diamond almost devoid of seeds is excellent. If you are lucky enough to find flowers or small zucchini zucchini flowers.
Buy them early in the morning and prepare the fritters or stuffed.

Too large courgettes are often spongy, fibrous and full of seeds.

Try the eggplant from August to September, they came from Provence and the South West. There are many varieties of eggplant used are a nice purple glow. More scarce, grown white in the midday.

Choose eggplants males, more favorable, because they do not contain seeds. The male fruit is more plump and more pointed at its extremity. With time and a little patience, you will come to recognize them.

Take advantage of raspberries to make jam, jelly or fruit salad. The Goldtroube rare on the markets, the yellow is very fragrant.

The red fruits of summer exellence disappear stalls at the end of August. Do the cluster, they will keep better.
The white varieties are sweeter.

The Valançay is a goat cheese, soft-footed, its rind is powdered with powdered charcoal. Choose only the firm, it should not be dry. It is at its best in summer and autumn.

Blueberries grown in the Limousin has a delicate flavor, but less pronounced than the wild blueberry. Picking blueberries cultivated is less painful than the harvest of wild blueberries, because shrubs are taller and more provided.

August is the ideal time for red mullet.
Choose red rock instead of red mud (the latter is recognizable because it has 3 scales in the eye, while red mullet has only 2)

Try the grilled red mullet, after being roasted, place on a bed of rosemary branch, flame pastis (delicious recipe from Provence).

Continue to buy peaches, ice fishing is the best, but more fragile and can be kept less than that to yellow flesh.

To select them trust you with their perfume and prefer fruits in crates stored in cells rather than those sold in bulk.

For fruit in bulk, take the time to choose.

Enjoy the summer grilling barbecued sardines. Choose them well gills with fresh roses and red, do not empty, wipe it off. For your convenience, to return, leave the head.

Anchovies are cooked like sardines, although rare on the shelves, but at an affordable price.

Enjoy the cherry tomatoes, very refreshing as an aperitif, to decorate your salads, terrines etc. ..