May Menu Planner | French Garden Catering

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Asparagus is the star this month. The stone fruit season begins with the first apricots, cherries and peaches from the Continent. Other spring produce includes broad beans, Jersey Royals and peas. Wild garlic tends to be in bud or flower.

Asparagus - Green, purple and white
Jersey Royals - All grades: mids, ware, pearls / chats
Leeks
Outdoor rhubarb
Spring greens
Watercress

Apples (Braeburn, Bramley - UK from store)
Apricots (early season)
Cherries
Kumquats
Pears (Comice, Williams)
Peaches (early season)

Annabel's strawberries from Yorkshire will start this month.

Pineberry
Strawberries (Anais, Ciflorette, Clery, Gariguette, Mara de Bois)
Raspberries
White strawberry
Wild strawberries / Frais de Bois

English salads are underway
Lettuce from Beausse | FRANCE
Radicchio Castelfranco (end of season) | ITALY
Radicchio Trevise | ITALY
Watercress | LOCAL

Morels | CHINA
Mousseron (early May only)
St George (early May only)

Elderflower
Sweet Cicely
Wild chervil

Artichokes | EUROPE
Courgettes (round, yellow and green) | EUROPE
Green almonds
Heritage tomatoes (Provence) | FRANCE
New potatoes (Noirmoutier, Île de Ré, Linzer Delikatess)
Wet garlic | REST OF WORLD

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