There comes a point when you have to admit that autumn is
coming. I’m not ready to think of winter yet, give me time for that... But when
summer days start ending on a chilly note and you find yourself reaching for
your stash of vests (everyone has one, right?), it’s time to adapt your food to
fit. This is often helped on by supermarkets, who begin to stock basic
ingredients that just don’t work as well as they did in summer months. Take
tomatoes. They’re ripe and juicy in the summer, albeit for a price. By
autumn, the packets that grace the shelves are full of fruit as hard as stones
and just as tasteless. Luckily, salt, pepper, olive oil and a spell in a hot
oven at everyone’s favourite gas mark (6, duh!) is enough to get the tastebuds
excited again.
