Vegan Market, Kettering

This Saturday I spent a delightful morning wandering around  the Market Place in Kettering, Northamptonshire, enjoying the Vegan Market. I tried lots of tasty treats including some Cheese, Some Turkish delight, Baklava, Indian Snacks and some delicious sweet, Sesame coated Peanuts.

I was there not long after the market had opened and it was lovely to see it well attended. I would of loved to have purchased something from every stall as I love supporting independent traders. I did buy some lovely treats, Hubby got a bag of the Sesame Peanuts and Saturday night’s dessert was a piece of sweet and sticky cinnamon Baklava, chosen having tried a tiny sample of the vanilla one that was being sold. I washed all my samples down with coffee from Cub Coffee, a Vegan coffee company.

I enjoyed looking around all of the stalls. For me one of the best ones I looked at was the Riverford Farms Organic veg box stall. We used to have this many, many years ago, but due to family circumstances we stopped it. Most of the meals I make these days are based around vegetables as the main stars of my dishes. I think it must have been fate that they were there this Saturday as I have been considering whether I should re-join a veg box scheme for a while. I like the idea of buying UK farmed food and seasonal. I think produce tastes so much better when it is not forced. Strawberries taste better in June than in December and who ever heard of picking blackberries in April?

With that in mind I have signed back up to the scheme and am excitedly awaiting my first box arriving tomorrow (Monday). As a thank you for signing up I got a Cooking with a veg box spring and summer cookbook and am looking forward to trying out some of the recipes. Although not all the recipes are plant based I am sure I can Veganize them, more in later posts about how I get on with this. I still have the folder with the recipe cards in that used to come with the boxes from years before. It is a shift in mind set to base meals on what is in season. I remember when I was a child looking forward to buttery new potatoes with fresh mint on top in Spring/Summer and oven baked jackets in the Autumn/Winter topped with a warming gravy casserole.

The event this Saturday was put on by Vegan Markets who run these events in over 50 places around England. If you get the chance to attend one you won’t be disappointed. Link to this at the bottom of this post.

Catch up again soon

Sharon

The Lady Eats Plants

https://www.veganmarkets.co.uk/