rick stein was on tv this morning cooking with samphire. we spent the whole segment trying to figure out what he was saying (sunflower? sapphire? safflower?) and what the hell the green leafy/shooty stuff was that he was chucking in his risotto like it was something you commonly find in tesco’s produce department. now we know. samphire is also known as sea fennel which makes it sound even more attractive. we still don’t know where the hell we can get any from though. answers on the back of a postcard please.

[actually if we (*I*) looked past the end of our noses we’d see the google ad for the fish society who sell it at £3.40 for 190g. not fresh though. i expect a seaside fishmongers or market would be the only likely place to find it fresh. it’s a bugger being landlocked in west yorkshire sometimes.]