Wednesday 11 August 2010

Salvaged Fallen Mirabelle

I salvaged a basket of fallen Mirabelle yesterday at the side of a quiet country lane. As I arrived home I set to on the computer and totted up the numbers. I realised that there are still 96 more recipes to write up and 50 more to photograph. So there is still a long way to go. The deadline is December.

I am excited today, because I am going to Rococo in Weedon Northamptonshire, where Stephanie and her husband (I have yet to meet him) have a salvage yard. I’d like to have some pictures of one of the salad recipes on white washed aged floor boards. I know exactly what I want the photo to look like. I, or rather Bunny and I, will need to chop and saw and drill to get a small working floorboard prop for my mocked up studio in the lounge. I am however wondering how I am to get a reclaimed floor board back home in my car. There is a comedy moment looming. What treasure I will find .. and what fun.
In the mean time - I am about to cook a Mirabelle pie, as a thank you to Stephanie for allowing me to use her yard as a shoot location. These Mirabelle, rescued from the roadside,are so beautiful, bright, plump and shiny.. it almost..almost a shame to cook them.

5 comments:

  1. How appropriate salvaged fruit! The pie looks and smells delish, thank you, pudding tonight is sorted, Neville feels very short changed if they is nothing sweet after din-dins. Have fun with the timber, it was of course lovely to see you again, i wait with baited breath for the images, O'h a big P.S "i want your camera" Stephne x

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  2. Thank you again. I hope the pie is delicious. I rattled off a few shots of the pie before I left the house with it.. I have yet to look at the shots but will check tonight .. so I hope they come out. Your shop is amazing as is the material and plates and wood you have lent me. It is just so wonderful! I can't wait to get cooking to use them in the next photo shoot. You know they may fetch double when my book is best seller!
    X

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  3. I've not heard of Mirabelle's before - they look like cherries - do they taste like them? I do love a good cherry pie with shortcrust pastry... never puff!

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  4. They are a small plum. Sometimes called gypsy plums and are falling off trees all over the place here. (Northamptonshire UK.) The French grow them like we grow normal plums, and make a sweet jam with them. They also come in pink and yellow and are a little more intense in their flavour than a normal plum. They are well worth the effort of finding. If not then use normal plums in a recipe instead.

    Vanessa

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  5. Mirabelle's are great, you can also just scoff them if you can't wait for your chef to prepare them :)

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