Jonell Galloway
Recipe: Lacquered pork tenderloin, roast potatoes and wild garlic leaves
Lacquered pork tenderloin with roast potatoes and wild garlic or ramson.
Lacquered pork tenderloin with roast potatoes and wild garlic or ramson.
Ingredients
Serves 4
800-gram / 1 3/4-lb pork tenderloin roast (“filet mignon de porc”)5 T. honey 30 grams / 2 T. butter 2 t. Colman’s mustard powder or 2 T. whole-grain mustard 2 T. coriander seeds Beans of one vanilla pod Olive oil Salt and pepper to taste 12 small raclette or new potatoes, unpeeled 237 ml / 1 cup thick veal or chicken stock (“fond de veau” or “fond de volaille”) 2 bunches wild garlic leaves (“ail des ours”)
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First local strawberries of 2010 in Lake Geneva region.
Breaking news: we have local strawberries and rhubarb!
Whoof, spring is here, even if the mercury can’t seem to rise quite to the heights we would like.
I was worried last week at this time. Be patient, the Mara des Bois will come in time.
First local rhubarb.
For local vegetables, green is the word. There are salads of every type, especially pourprier, rosette, arugula, baby spinach, chervil, and numerous other mixed wild greens.
Lots of sorrel to make your salmon sauce or soup. Jump on the dandelion greens while they’re plentiful. Nettles arrived on the scene this week.
Root vegetables are still in: celery root (celeriac), baby beets and carrots.
There are plenty of fat red radishes and spring onions. Jerusalem artichokes are still on the scene, as are parsnips and new potatoes, especially the raclette types. Oodles of varieties of potatoes.
There are plenty of baby leeks, broccoli and cabbages. Nice tender kohlrabi is available as well, along with Swiss chard and delicious fennel.
Wild mountain garlic leaves, to be used like an herb.
For other fruit, you’ll have to buy French or Italian products. Italian and Spanish oranges are excellent this year.
There are actually Florida grapefruit available, despite all the catastrophic predictions.
French strawberries are in abundance, as are, of course, the Spanish ones.
Sandrine Chapuis' lovely mix of wild greens and wild flowers.
Yellow kiwis from New Zealand are excellent this year, and Alphonso, well, I still have my love affair with Alphonso mangoes. I bought a dozen today for CHF2 a piece. They may be ugly, but they have a special place in my little heart. French rhubarb is available, although not in vast quantity.
Quite a variety of herbs, considering the fact that winter still hasn’t decided to really leave.
I’m not a flower specialist, so I don’t know the names. I’ll just show you the photos; they speak for themselves. There are however tulips and forsythia galore.
Jonell Galloway
Market Day 6 May 2009 photo album, with 27 images from Geneva’s Boulevard Helvétique market.
It was a day for spring flowers, wild garlic, baby turnips, fountain watercress, April Cross radishes, watermelon from Spain and wonderful rye bread. Take a visual tour!
Muguets, to welcome in the spring
Morels, a glorious rite of spring