What's in season: June in Sydney
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Finally . . . here’s the June list of the fruit and vegetables in season in Sydney.
Fruit:
- Apples: the best apples this month are are Braeburn’s, Fuji, Golden Delicious, Granny Smith and Pink Ladies. Update: I think pink ladies are the pick of the bunch and most of the fujis I’ve bought recently have been bitter.
- Avocadoes: Hass and Sharwill are in season
- Bananas: good quality and cheap
- Blueberries: from Coffs Harbour, although they’re pricey
- Custard apples
- Dates
- Dragon fruit
- Fuji fruit & persimmons
- Grapes: the best are crimson seedless, although it’s coming to the end of grape season and they’ll be going up in price this month
- Grapefruit: yellow grapefruit are in season and rubys are on their way
- Kiwifruit: including the first crop of Australian gold kiwifruit
- Lemons
- Limes
- Mandarins: Imperials, Alphora, Taylor Lee and Daisies all available
- Nashi pears
- Oranges: Australian navels now available
- Pears: Bosc, Packham, Sensation, Corella and Josephine all in season
- Pomelos
- Quinces
- Rhubarb
- Tamarillos
- Tangellos: should be coming into season this month
Vegetables
- Beetroot
- Bitter melon
- Beans: Borlotti and Broad beans
- Broccoli
- Broccolini
- Brussels sprouts
- Cabbages: Savoy cabbages are particularly good. I’ve heard that sugarloaf are also available, but am yet to see them at my local stores
- Carrots
- Cavalo nero or black kale or curly Russian kale – although this is hard to find
- Cauliflower
- Celeriac
- Celery
- Chillies
- Daikon
- Fennel
- Jerusalem artichokes
- Kohlrabi
- Leeks
- Okra
- Olives
- Onions
- Parsnips
- Potatoes: best are Dutch Creams, Sebagoes, Kipflers, Bintje & Nicolas
- Pumpkin
- Silverbeet
- Spinach
- Swede
- Sweet potato: cheap and good quality
- Turnips
- Witlof
This list is compiled each month from a number of sources: the Harris Farm Market and Fratelli Fresh market updates; Lettuce Deliver’s weekly shopping guide; the Sydney Markets seasonal guide; updates in Donna Hay and Delicious magazines; a range of books; as well as my own observations of what’s currently available and good value. I sometimes continue to make updates during the month, as fruit and veg availability changes.
10 June, 2008
Comments
So what DO you do with a jerusalem artichoke? That’s one of the few veggies I’ve always passed by in puzzlement.
(Kohlrabi, celeriac and bitter melon are the other inhabitants of that list…)
Apologies for being critical but I get so annoyed when people call kiwifruit kiwis. I know some people think that the word fruit at the end is superfluous and over the last couple of years it seems to have been totally deleted (a trend started by lazy retailers), but a kiwi is a bird (or a native New Zealander).
Gwyneth,
Celeriac with apples makes the most wonderful soup, or mash it with potatos.
Kohlrabi I have used in gratins, having bought one as it looked so alien!
Gwyneth – Jerusalem artichokes are one of my favourite foods. They are fabulous in soups, especially with fresh thyme. You can also bake them with herbs, or make a gratin.
Thanks for your suggestions Hippolyra – celeriac with apples sounds wonderful. I’ve also mashed them through potatoes and made them into a soup with leeks and white beans.
I don’t think I’ve actually used kohlrabi before, but here are some links from the Simply Recipes site.
Jacqueline – I’ve fixed up my terminology in the list above.
I found some strawbs cheap today, and look very delicious. Maybe from Tassie? Potatoes are out in force here, and I plan a big bowl of mashed potato for tonight. I don’t eat potato very often, and mashed potato even less often. But tonight it is on the menu. I also found some magnificent limes, as big as lemons. Mandarins and pears are looking excellent.
Most of the strawberries I’ve seen have been from Queensland – it is a bit out of season for them. And aren’t the mandarins wonderful at the moment. I bought a bag on the weekend and they’re out of this world. Super sweet and juuuuuuicy.
“kale – although this is hard to find”
- You said it!! Any ideas on where to buy?
If I was sure what it looked like and knew where to find a market with it…
Hi there Livvy – yep tricky to find cavalo nero or even normal kale in Sydney. There’s a good picture of cavalo nero here. The only time I’ve ever bought it is from Lettuce Deliver organics. Your best bet though is to try the Italian areas of Sydney – Five Dock, Haberfield, maybe Leichhardt.
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