market catch

I really like living next door to Coventry market. On a Saturday afternoon, the traders do a roaring trade with really cheap fruits and vegetables to close the week. You can get a basket of fruit and vegetables for 50 pence. I really overdid it today, I bought a melon for 75 pence, several bananas for 25 pence a pound, 3 figs and guavas for a pound, 2 papayas and some plums. I also got some peppers, some cod cheeks and a wild rabbit

Fruits from the market

I panfried the cod cheeks with dried chillies and some soya sauce, added coriander and they were very delicious. I am not at all good at cutting up meat any more - the store owner (he sells fish as well as game) said he had already started the cleaning process and couldn't cut it up for me. So I grilled the whole rabbit with lots of pepper, and some dark soy. I felt like Asterix and Obelix when I tore into the flesh. There is something primeval about it. Apologies to my vegetarian friends!

the grilled rabbit