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[Vanessa]

p.s. The discipline involved in walking past the Lippy sandwich seller....

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[Lippy]

You are bringing tears to my eyes.

[Ms J]

In spite of anticipating my Solstice order at 2pm, I had to go to Borough this morning, too. It's just too conveniently situated not to, really.

Neil's Yard: unpasterised single cream, some perfect brie-de-meux, and a bit of young Colson Bassett stilton so creamy and beautiful it actually matches my taste memory of the one clb's H brought to a Christmas dinner at the Sutton Arms a few years ago. I had the good fortune to be served by a particularly chatty cheeseguy, who explained the technique required to produce the stilton's incredible creaminess so thoroughly I almost feel I could recreate it at home. (Er, I said almost.)

&Clarks: wheatgerm bread. This turned out to be pain levane, which surprised me. It's gorgeous though, and so robustly crusty as to give the jaws a pretty decent workout.

French Butter Guy: for tranches of butter, of course (both salted and unsalted)

L'Artisan du Chocolat: for a cup of their to-die-for hot chocolate (sigh) and little bags of seconds, currently priced at 2 for £1. Apparently they've started supplying chocs to BA's first class passengers, and so there are more seconds than usual.

I resisted Lippy's toasted cheese sandwich, but only just. The fragrence of butter, cheese & leeks/spring onion was pretty intoxicating.

[Lippy]

I want to know what the sandwich maker would give a customer who asked for a Lippy.

[alexhills]

Today -

A cep, some morels, some black trumpets for a risotto from Booth's. Also picked up some samphire there from Holland, seemed wildly out of season to me, only knew about the East Anglian summer season, but thought I'd give it a try anyway, does anyone know if this is cultivated or something?

a nice little bowl of veg from the man screaming 'any bowl for a pound' very loudly and repeatedly.

A piece of seabass fillet that I will marinate in lemon juice and olive oil with some fennel and red onion and have as semi-ceviche, in memory of the South American Cuisine thread. The fishmonger had a whole monkfish with the head one and some other poor fishy shoved down its mouth, funny ... Also had a nice Native Oyster and a steak sandwich. GOOD all round, of course insanely busy.

[Jon Tseng]

There were live crayfish on the main fish stand today, which is unusual.

£11/kg a kilo for live, which was cheaper than the (dead) langoustines as £12 or £13/ a kilo

Still waiting for the sweetbreads to turn up at ginger pig...

J

[alexhills]

May as well post some of my bounty from today's visit. Friday mornings are definitely a good time to be there. Not too busy, good stuff hasn't been got at yet. I'm doing maybe 2/3rds of my grocery shopping there at the moment, having managed not to enter a supermarket since Jan 6th. Good for the soul if not the pocket book.

A large hunk of beef shin from Northfields farm. Also a small piece of sirloin - I've not tried their sirloin yet and it looks fab.

A mackeral for tonight's supper from the Barrow fish people. Looks good, still got its irridesence. Such a cheap fish too, ridiculously underrated in my opinion.

Tolouse sausages from the Ginger Pig.

Various veggies and mushrooms from Booth's. The morels were now DOWN to 4 times what I paid for them in Turkey last week, but I still couldn't resist a few. The most interesting thing though was wild garlic leaves, I've not tried them before, will steam them and have them with the fish tonight.

Comte, Forme d'Ambert and a saucission from the people at the back. The saucission does indeed taste of the advertized donkey meat.... Damn good though.

Very nice Ethiopian coffee from Monmouth.

Oooooops, and a visit to the Bedales cellar, from which I really need a restraining order. Picked up a 99 Ponsot Gevrey Village - 1st time I've bought a 'great' producer Burgundy, a little research afterwards suggests I paid a bit over the odds. oooops. Some other stuff there was better value on reflection - 99 d'Angerville Volnay Champans less than 40 quid - but very curious to try this nonetheless. Not sure whether its worth giving it a little longer - any experience??

Wine excepted not too expensive though, probably 8 meals worth for 40 quid. Definitely one of my favourite London rituals, although Saturdays are really getting too scary for me.

[Abbylovi]

Thanks. I've missed hearing about this market.

[alexhills]

Thanks. I've missed hearing about this market.

I go nearly every week - I'll keep the reports coming, it'll give me some incentive to make my shopping more varied!!

[Jon Tseng]

Still waiting for the sweetbreads to turn up at ginger pig...

J

A year later and STILL waiting for this years sweetbreads to turn up

Maybe better luck this weekend

Abby... You hadn't heard of it yet???

J

[Lippy]

I'd give anything for a Lippy sandwich.

[Abbylovi]

Abby... You hadn't heard of it yet???

Oh no, I was simply saying that I'd missed hearing Borough reports. I've been and I loved it...I'm living vicariously through your posts.

[Scorched Palate]

Me, too. I miss the BM more than I can express.

Now that our expat family are moving back to the states, I probably won't be back for a while. The exchange rate is just too shocking to visit "just because".

Have a pork-and-stilton sandwich for me, and a cup of Monmouth coffee?

~A

[Cathy]

I'd give anything for a Lippy sandwich.

You'd probably be disappointed in the 'wichcraft version: gruyere, caramelized onions, rye.

I haven't had an original Lippy sandwich, so I manage to scarf this one down just fine.

[Lippy]

Hmm. Similar. Subsitute Montgomery cheddar for the gruyere and Poilane for the rye bread and there you are.