Cooking Seasonally

If there is any one over-riding strategy that I would like you to take away from this book, it is hardly to plan meals in advance at all. Good eating is based on good shopping. If you decide what you are going to cook before you go shopping, you may just be lucky in finding that every shop you visit has exactly what you need in prime condition. But more often, you will find yourself having to put up with at least a degree of second or third-best in order to fit your plan. Instead, go out to shop with a clear idea of good produce you can expect to find, using the monthly shopping lists as a guide, and have one or two flexible schemes floating around in your head, then adjust them to fit the very best of what is available.