July

The strawberry season is in full swing, enjoy them in fruit salads, and refreshing soup for dessert.

The heat will soon be leaving peas gourmet stalls, enjoy it with a few handfuls of peas, bacon and hearts of lettuce.

Enjoy your holiday at the moment is full of lobster season and the cheapest period.
Choose a 1 kg lobster. for 2 people, rather than 2 servings lobsters, less tasty as too young. The best lobsters are caught in the waters of Brittany.

The comb is also in full season, enjoy them for entry to the mayonnaise soup or ice.

Enjoy fresh anchovies, this little fish to the bluish appearance of sardine supports badly frayed over the trip. Drink it in 48 hours anchovies to choose blanks still curved, stiff and without spot of blood around the gills.

Try them fried or grilled with herbs, with some areas of lemon, serve them with a little white wine country.

The eggplant is the Empress of the summer vegetables. Choose the small size, they retain no more than 3 days in refrigerator. With summer, do not hesitate to prepare an eggplant caviar or baked, with a vinaigrette sauce with garlic, olive oil, lemon and herbs. Enjoy them warm.

Enjoy Bouchot mold and prepare a succulent Mouclade.

The hake is a fish was excellent.
Prefer small silver hake from the Atlantic, when the hake is primed it is Colin. Serve cold with mayonnaise or even steaks (for the latter, choose a piece near the head).

Purchase until the end of July apricots Rouge du Roussillon. Then you find on the shelves apricots Berger, bigger, less tasty, but to achieve the excellent jams.

With summer tomatoes are the Queens of the stalls, full of sun, eaten plain or in salads, they will make you forget those greenhouse sad and dull. Better to wait for their true season in July, to feast your taste buds. Make frozen soups good scents of Provence.
Raw, cooked, dried tomato accommodate all preparations. Choose the firm to the skin, they retain no more than 8 days in the refrigerator or let them ripen at room temperature.

Enjoy raspberries, despite their high price is at the heart of summer raspberries merveilleuse.On is found on the shelves in April, but they come from greenhouses and are not buds.

If you are lucky enough to own a garden, ceuillez the early morning, they will be more tasty, more sweet and will last longer. Keep them in the refrigerator, remove all prior or moldy berries too ripe, they contaminate all the others. Do not wash them, shake them a bit to eliminate the small insects that are sometimes housed within.

Prefer green beans or Banyuls Triomphe de Farcy. Buy only son without the check directly to the stall, break-in one, to make sure it is crisp and mostly it is not already mounted seeds, because it makes it fibrous and inedible.

Prepare your return from the market, rinse in water and cook them between 5 and 10 minutes. in a large quantity of water.

Reblochon excellent during the summer months, until November. Reblochon the slag is recognizable by the red mark of casein on one side. Those from Alpages are marked with a green plate.

Reblochon milk comes from cows that have grazed the grass of the high pastures of Savoy. Choose it, the crust very soft, very fluffy and slightly sweet scent boasts a cellar.

Enjoy the Sainte-Maure de Touraine throughout the summer to late autumn. There are many industrial products ressenblent him, but without his finesse and taste.

Choose the goat cheese with the AOC designation. Note that the straw that crosses from one end, is not a sign of quality, it is not mandatory but only facilitates the manipulation of small logs fragile.

Glasswort is a wild plant and algae that grows in salt marshes and beaches, we encounter most often on the shores of the Mediterranean, Atlantic and English Channel. This plant is abundant in the Bay of Somme, it is harvested from May to September.

Harvests from May to June are eaten raw, nature, salad dressing or mixed. Harvests from July to September s'accomodent as asparagus and green beans with hazelnut butter, often steamed or boiled a few minutes in unsalted water. Glasswort also consumed condiments such as pickles.