• Carrots
• Kale
• Radishes
• Spinach 
• Watercress
• Rosemary
• Spring Lamb
• Cockles
• Strawberries
• Rhubarb

April is the cruellest month said TS Eliot but food wise the coming abundance is just rearing its head. And though the choice is not vast, April’s seasonal produce is fantastic and seems to be designed to be a perfect fit when cooking. Roast spring lamb and rosemary, creamed spinach and buttered kale. Start with a warming watercress soup and finish with strawberry and rhubarb crumble. Seasonal bliss. Cockles are one the great British undiscovered food, we seem to crave Italian, French and Spanish clams, forgetting these little gems far closer to home. I don’t mean the jarred little things in jars either.

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