November - Yes Chef

Unit A2
New Covent Garden Market
London
SW8 5EE
020 3617 3300
www.yeschef.biz
Remember, remember
The fifth of November…
The first frosts are sweetening
up the root vegetables in time
for those warming hearty
platefuls of winter goodness.
Its definitely the season for
roasts with all the trimmings.
Bonfire Night on the 5th and Remembrance Sunday on the 8th
both mark the transition from autumn to winter. And just to help
you, ahem “remember, remember” please see
our Christmas opening times below when preparing for the festive season.
Watch our for
Christmas opening hours in our
December
issue...
In this edition
1
A FEW OF OUR FAVOURITE THINGS
Special Christmas page for festive sundries
2
CHRISTMAS MARKET
a selection of seasonal produce especially
for the festive season.
3
SIX OF THE BEST
A selection of some of the best vegetables this autumn.
4
TRUFFLE SHUFFLE
A rich and special treat for the festive season, the
best truffles for our clients.
5
SIGNS OF THE SEASON
A selection of squashes and pumpkins which are in
excellent form this season.
6
NUTURED IN NORFOLK
Introducing our link to micro herbs, veg and flowers
7
HOW D’YOU LIKE THEM APPLES?
A history of UK apples and a selection of the best
available this season.
8
MAGIC MUSHROOMS
Everything you need to know about mushrooms.
9
ROOTING FOR YOU
Root vegetables at their best this season.
10
OUT OF THE GROUND
A classic rundown of our heritage potatoes and
chips.
11
MAGNIFICENT BELLA ITALIA
Some beautiful produce from Italy.
12
STORE CUPBOARD
Some examples of what we offer for dry produce
A FEW OF OUR FAVOURITE THINGS…
During the Christmas season
we often get requests for all
sorts of festive bits and pieces. We are located in the
heart of Covent Garden Market, and can offer our customers the A-Z of Christmas
cheer. Take a look…
48 hours notice required
Mistletoe
Door Wreaths
Christmas Trees
Ivy
Pine Garlands
C. Best Ltd are
a wholesaler
of style led
products and
sundries, including vases,
silk flowers for
party planners, event
organisers and
florists.
CHRISTMAS
MARKET
a selection of seasonal produce
especially for the festive season
Pomegranates
Horseradish
Leafy Clementines
Brussel Sprouts
Chestnuts
Cranberries
Mixed Nuts
Parsnips
Dates
cv
SIX OF THE BEST
Sprouting broc
a selection of the best veg
of the month
purple
SIX OF THE BEST
Quince
A beautiful marriage between the apple and the pair, a perfect partner with cheese as a jelly but also wonderful with meat. Can be poached, jammed, jellied...extraordinarily versatile and quintessentially English.
Purple Sprouting Brocolli
Purple sprouting broccoli with a hint of
garlic and sesame, perfect with Sunday roast. A good-looking alternative to
their traditional green cousins.
Spiky Artichoke
Giving the spiky artichoke its due. A delicious
treat eaten either steamed with butter or stuffed with breadcrumbs.
Easy to handle if you know how.
Crosnes
A rarely seen vegetable that deserves more recognition. The small tubers have a delicious and nutty flavour and a
satisfying crunch. Perfect for salads and stir-fry's alike.
Heritage Tomatoes Beautiful shades and sizes of
sweet, plump and perfect tomatoes, the heart and soul of Italian
dishes.
Black Mooli With its inky black skin and pure white flesh,
the Black Spanish radish is a unique heirloom variety that has
been popular in Europe since the 1500s.
baby vegetables
There is a wonderful variety of baby veg
available at the moment. They are more
and more popular on modern menu, and
really pack a flavour and visual punch.
This season baby parsnips are beautiful.
TRUFFLE SHUFFLE
rich, dark, delicious and decadent
CHESTNUTS
...roasting on an open fire...
Coming from Italy, France and China
these add a beautiful and autumnal
edition to the breadth of the menu
from starters to desserts. So versatile and delicious.
SIGNS OF THE
SEASON
Squashes and Pumpkins
The
dark
green spherical fruit, when
fully ripe, is about
the size of a large cricket ball. Beautiful for
stuffing.
Gem
NURTURED IN
NORFOLK
Nurtured In Norfolk are specialist Micro cress and Pea Shoot growers
based near Dereham, Norfolk. Nurtured in Norfolk's range of Micro Cress,
Pea Shoots, Edible Leaves, Edible Flowers and Micro Veg products are
specially selected for their intense flavours, eye catching colours, visual
impact and tenderness.
Apple Mint
Aztec Mint
Banana Mint
Bronze Fennel
Buckler Sorrel
Butterfly Sorrel
Calamint
Chocolate Mint
Curly Mint
Emperors Mint
Ginger Mint
Grapefruit Mint
Ice Plant
Large Nasturtium Leaves
Lavender Mint
Lemon Verbena
Nasturtium Leaves
Orange Mint
Oregano Tips
Peppermint Black
Pineapple Mint
Rock Samphire
Salad Burnet
Salicornia
Sea Beet
Sea Purslane
Strawberry Mint
Sweet Cicely
Variegated Sage
Wild Garlic
Wormwood
Baby Fennel
Baby Leek
Micro Carrots
Micro Leeks
Micro Onions
Micro Turnips
Micro Rainbow Carrots
Baby Courgettes
Baby Aubergines
Cucamelons
Baby Beetroot
Golden Pea Shoots
Salad Pea Shoots
Sunflower Shoots
Tendril Pea Shoots
As the colder weather comes through
edible blossoms are much scarcer. We
are moving to more micro veg and
herbs for winter.
...many more contact
us for a full list of
products
EDIBLE FLOWERS
How d’you like them
apples?
British apple season arrives
EARLY WINDSOR
COXES ORANGE
PIPPIN
BRAEBURN
RUSSETS
DISCOVERY
ROYAL GALA
BRAMLEY
WORCESTER
Research in the early part of the 21st century indicated that all sweet apples
arose originally in a small area of Tian Shan on Kazakhstan's border with China.
It is likely that they gradually spread into Europe through the Middle East and
several manuscripts from ancient Greece, including Homer's Odyssey, refer to
apples and describe apple orchards. There is evidence that apples grew wild in
Britain in the Neolithic period but it was the Romans who first introduced varieties with sweeter and greater taste. The earliest known mention of apples in
England was by King Alfred in about 885 AD.
MAGIC
MUSHROOMS
A magical rundown of the
seasons best mushrooms
ROOTING FOR
YOU
RAINBOW
CHARD
All root vegetables are of excellent quality at the
moment. This time of year is excellent for
making healthy hearty soups or matching with
meats and fish.
PTO
OUT OF THE
GROUND
OUT OF THE GROUND
heritage potatoes available
Please state when ordering whether you need the
potatoes for shipping or mashing, we can guide you
to the best for your needs.
Available washed
in 5 or 10kg boxes
and in 1kg nets.
Chippies Choice potatoes are
available in 25kg sacks, and
were the first chipping potatoes
to give storage, preparation
and frying instructions in six
languages, allowing best practices to be observed in restaurants of different nationalities.
Possibly
the best specialist chipping potato brand in the UK, our exclusive Chippies Choice potatoes are a firm favourite of the
fish and chip shop trade. Guaranteeing a light,
golden, fluffy but firm textured chip, Chippies
Choice ensures consistent production of the perfect chip. To achieve this, potatoes are always
selected using strict variety, dry matter and fry
colour criteria.
Available washed in
5 or 10kg boxes and
in 1kg nets.
A very old variety dating
back to 1850 which has
made an astonishing
comeback in recent
years .This variety is a long
potato pink in colour with a butter yellow
middle. It is suitable for boiling, steaming
or roasting whole.
Available washed in
5 or 10kg boxes and
in 1kg nets.
Firm, full flavoured
and with a distinctive
blushed and delicate
skin, Ruby Gem potatoes need no
peeling. They make a colourful side
sautéed until crisp and golden or
simply roasted with a little garlic .
Enter the Vitelotte
potato, a variety
that originally hails from
Peru and Bolivia and brings to the table a
right royal pop of purple - beneath that
inky exterior lies rich violet flesh which
doesn’t fade when cooked. Vitelotte potatoes have a slightly nutty flavour that
works brilliantly in salads.
Available washed in
5 or 10kg boxes and
in 1kg nets.
Also known as La
Ratte, La Reine, Ratte du Touquet, or Asparges is a
small potato with a unique nutty flavour–
described has hazlenutty with a smooth,
buttery texture. Good for mashing, using
in salads or even casseroles .
Available in 25kg
sacks washed or
unwashed
Desiree potatoes have a
firm, creamy
tasting flesh making them ideal for
smooth mash or being cooked in a
sauce, such as our favourite Dauphinoise. Beautiful with a ruby skin and
light yellow flesh.
MAGNIFICENT
BELLA ITALIA
Just a small example of what we can
offer from Italy
It is easy to love good food, and Italians know a couple of things about
it. When you enjoy cooking, you become acquainted with ingredients
and flavours with a pleasurable delight; you get
to know how they mix with each other, which type of
scent their fragrance produce and how they will taste
once they touch your tongue. Italy is the very soul of
cooking and conviviality. Here we have some of the
most delicious Italian fresh produce of the season.
All Italian produce is getting better, Cime di Rapa, Catalogna and Puntarella are all good at the
moment.
Leaf Spinach, Swiss Chard, Leafy Celery, Radicchio Chioggia, Precoce and Castelfranco all
good quality.
The first of Radicchio Treviso Tardivo has arrived this week, a little dear but is this is to be
expected.
Bunch Rocket soon will be from the South as
the Northern areas are getting cold.
Bargamot Citrus and Leafy Lemons are
wonderful at this time of year.
STORE CUPBOARD
A rundown of our dry store products