Wanstead Farmers market

Did you know there is a Farmers Market on Wanstead High Street every 1st Sunday in the month? It's great because you can buy french cheeses pate and bread, or English game meat - venison mallard duck and rabbit. There's also a Breton crepe van that does real gallettes with buckwheat flour and a nice illy espresso to go with it. The apple juice stall has fantastic apple juice from Kent, and if you order in advance you can also get their amazing Hard Core cider which is just lovely.

Organic Vegetable Box Scheme

Organic Vegetable Box Scheme
Originally uploaded by AndyRob

Organic Vegetable Box Scheme available in North Fambridge

Tillingham grown organic vegetables

Organic vegetable Boxes

Kent Cider

Kent Cider found in a pub in Canterbury, which can now be visited much more easily from East London via Stratford East and the High Speed 1 rail link

Christmas Dinner Goose

Christmas Dinner Goose
Originally uploaded by AndyRob

Christmas Dinner Goose from Somerfield, soon to become the Coop at Wanstead.

Cider Tasting Heron Valley Devon cider

Tasting the Heron Valley Cider

The nice thing about this cider is that it's an all natural 100% organc cider that doesn't even contain sulphites. It tastes absolutely wonderful as well, full of fruit, sharp and wholesome.

Tasting video from Cider Workshop




The funny thing is that there are some people who say that you can't grow apples organically and you can't make good cider without sulphite.


I'm just glad the good people at Heron Valley cider didn't take any notice of them.

One More Cup of Coffee - Bob Dylan - Andy Roberts Music

One More Cup of Coffee - Bob Dylan - Andy Roberts Music

What's the best coffee you can get in London? I like straight espresso but the coffee you get served in London varies hugely from one coffee shop to another. There's a little cafe near me in Manor Park called the Mediterranean Cafe which is run by a Moroccan and Polish couple and the espressos there range from very acceptable to very good.

From the chain cafes my favourite is probably Cafe Nero but Cost can be OK. I wouldn't go anywhere near Starbucks - YUK!

Farmers Markets

Well I was happily surprised to discover a farmers market at Ilford yeseterday, Sunday 27th September in the delightfully restored grounds of the grand house in Ilford's Valentine Park. There;s a Rose garden, substantial walled English gardens, a tearoom, stalls and a Farmers Market where we bought some apples from Kent, fruit juice, cheese, chorizo and smoked garlic.

The Farmers market is at Valentines Park Ilford on the fourth Sunday of every month and also on the Highh street at Wanstead the following Sunday, probably because its the first Sunday in the month or something like that.