Starters 4 In the Larder
BARBECUE BITES
No alfresco feast is complete
without our round-up of the best BBQ cheats and treats
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1. Perfect post Field & Flower Family Barbecue Box, £26.95 Fancy an award-winning meat box delivered straight to your door? Field and Flower’s Home Farm sits deep in the Gordano Valley of North Somerset and, since 2010, the founders – who studied together at the Royal Agricultural College in Cirencester – have made it their job to rear, source, butcher and deliver top-notch meat across the UK. On a recent scorching weekend, we tested the family barbecue box and tucked into gourmet beef burgers, lamb burgers, pork sausages, dry- cured back bacon and succulent minute steaks. All the meat is free range, grass fed and can be frozen for up to three months. Available to buy online. ✱
www.fieldandflower.co.uk
2. Very veggie Greta’s Wholefoodies Vegetarian burgers, from £4.85/400g Barbecues needn’t mean
a meat fest – at least, not when you’ve got the likes of Greta’s Wholefoodies’ range of four delicious veggie burgers instead. Based at Aberthin in South Wales, Greta describes her business as a small company with a big heart, but flavours come in anything but small sizes. Choose from curried chickpea, coriander and coconut, black- eye bean, carrot, corn, chickpea and mango or laverbread burgers, best topped with a fried egg. Handmade by Greta, using the very best of local produce, these tasty frozen patties, many of them gluten-free, should be cooked with a brush of olive oil. Available to buy at Tortworth Estate Farm Shop. ✱
www.gretaswholefoodies.com
3. Wild west My Secret Kitchen Wild Garlic Secret Spices, £4.49/80g We all know the key to a good grill is seasoning (watch any episode of Man v. Food if you don’t believe us), and this wild
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garlic seasoning from Ashton Keynes-based company, My Secret Kitchen, will transform the way you cook. Stir a pinch through mayo for a punchy dip, add to butter for super-speedy garlic bread or mix with olive oil for a pungent marinade – perfect for steaks and king prawns. Just ¼ tsp of this powerful seasoning can replace 1 fresh clove of garlic in cooking, and it’s fast become our go-to cheat’s store-cupboard staple. Available online. ✱
www.mysecretkitchen.co.uk
4. Go-go garlic The Garlic Farm Barbecue Sauce, £3.40/250g Okay, so we know the Isle of Wight isn’t exactly local to us in the Cotswolds – but when you discover an ingredient this good, you find a way to get it home! The Garlic Farm has been growing the heady bulbs for more than 50 years, and it’s that fiery freshness that makes this barbecue sauce such a winner. We smeared it on our burgers,
bangers and even drizzled it over our burnished corn-on-the- cob. Perfection in condiment form – we salute you! Available online and from Primrose Vale Farm Shop, Cheltenham and Over Farm Market, Gloucester. ✱
www.thegarlicfarm.co.uk
5. Too hot, too spicy? Gran Luchito Mayo, £3.29/180g If, like us, you’ve become addicted to the Gran Luchito’s smoked chilli paste, made with rare Oaxacan smoked chillies (we’ve been adding a dollop to everything from poached eggs to stir fries and homemade hummus), you’ll love this new fiery mayo. Made with free-range eggs, it’s got the perfect balance between sweet, savoury and spicy and is the must-have accompaniment to rich barbecued meats, fish and veg. Suddenly, the humble oven chip will never be quite the same again… Available from Wholefoods, Cheltenham. ✱
www.gran.luchito.co.uk
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