#Adelaide Central Market Watch January 6, 2012

Fruit and Veg

Welcome to 2012 in the Adelaide Central Market and to the season return of the unusual flat peaches. They are called Saturn peaches and are a member of the white peach family. Also called doughnut peach, paraguayo peach, pan tao peach, saucer peach, belly-up peach, and UFO peach.

They taste fantastic, are very sweet and creamy and have a skin that has less fuzz and are easier to peel. Punch out the seed, fill with icecream and you have a heaven sent dessert.

Saturns are available at Coco's, S20/21 and cost $4.99 per punnet of 6. Also at Coco's look for the exotic rambutan $2.50 each, baby Paradise pears $12.95 kg, luscious raspberries $6.99 kg and the never seen before plumcots for $9.95 kg. Yes, plumcots. They are a cross between the apricot and plum genus , have a rose complexion and have the texture of apricot and the juice of a plum. Very yummy.

Thompsons, S27/28, have terrific new season seedless green grapes from the Ord region in WA for $6kg, mangoes are three for $5, Adelaide Hills cherries $10kg, Qld ginger $10 kg and snappy snow peas from Virginia for $12kg.

Aubergines, S57, have the hierloom 'Rouge de Marmande' tomatoes this week. These are the old French variety tomato with the original bumpy shape and outstanding flavour. They cost $4.99kg.

House of Organics, S34/35, has juicy passionfruit and sweet corns for $.99c each.

Meat and Poultry

Warm weather is forecast, and the word from Tony O'Connell is to enjoy cold cuts of meat. Corned silverside and pickled pork are both $7.99 kg and ox tongue is $6.99 kg. Check the Mettwurst Shop, S22, for best selling traditional garlic mettwurst $8 each, kabanas are three for $4 and kangaroo mettwursts are $5.50 each.

Vegas Poultry, S62 and @vegaspoultry62 on Twitter, have bake ready 'Gourmet Pillows' which are free-range chicken thigh fillets, filled and seasoned with garlic butter, parmesan cheese and cracked black pepper, tied and ready to roast. Four for $19.

Gourmet

Carousel Nut Bar, S76, has been owned and run by Jack and Nicki Farmakis sice 2001. The hot nut section is hard to escape as all the nuts are cooked in healthy rice bran oil, leaving only the real taste of roasted nuts. Macadamias are $39kg and cashews are $20 kg.Try their new garlic roasted almonds $3.50 for 160gms, turkish figs are $2.99 for 250gms, and pepita seeds are $6.95 for 500gms.

Special

Providore, S66 has a new gluten-free chocolate and walnut cake that is heaven. Rich dark chocolate ganache fills a chocolate walnut base and is irristable. The large size is $49 and will feed up to twenty people , the small size is $35 and by the slice is $4.50.