‘Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun…’

John Keats To autumn

With autumn the days are shorter, mornings are sharp, leaves change colour to golden and red, then fall, and the air is crisp.  Daylight reduces, but the new flavours are just beginning.


In Autumn we:

Embrace the cooler nights with warm curries, kaffir lime leaves, baby fennel and eggplants.

Roast carrots.

Enjoy the earthy smell of mushrooms picked from the fields.

Wrap ripe purple figs in proscuitto.

Warm goat’s cheese and toss with radicchio.

Make pumpkin soup.

Bake mushroom, bacon and blue cheese pie.

Slowly poach deep burgundy plums.

Autumn

Fruit
Apple – Bonza, Cox’s Orange Pippin, Fuji, Golden delicious, Granny Smith, Jonathan, Pink Lady, Red Delicious, Royal Gala, Snow and Sundowner; Avocado; Banana; Cumquat; Custard Apple; Feijoa; Fig; Grapes – Purple Cornichon, Waltham Cross; Grapefruit; Kiwi Fruit; Lemon; Lime; Mandarin - Imperial; Melon – Champagne; Nashi; Oranges; Papaya (Pawpaw); Pears – Howell, Josephine, Packam, Red Sensation and William; Persimmon; Plum; Pomegranate; Quince; Rhubarb; Watermelon.

Nuts
Almonds; Chestnut; Hazelnut; Peanut; Pistacchio; Walnut.
 
Vegetables
Asian Greens; Avocadoes; Beans – borlotti, butter, green; Beetroot; Broccoli; Brussels Sprout; Cabbage - Purple; Capsicum; Carrot; Cauliflower; Celeriac; Celery; Chilli; Chives; Cucumber; Daikon (white radish); Eggplant; Fennel; Garlic; Ginger; Horseradish;  Leek; Lettuce  – Butter, Mignonette; Mushrooms – wild, field, pine and slipper jacks; Okra; Olive; Onions – brown, spring; Parsley – Snow; Parsnip; Peas; Potato; Pumpkins;  Shallot; Silverbeet; Spinach; Squash; Swede; Sweet Potato; Sugar snap peas; Taro; Tomato; Turnip; Watercress; Witlof; Zucchini.

Seafood
Albacore; Arrow Squid; Australian Salmon; Banded Morwong (Deep Sea Bream); Blue Warhou; Calamari; Garfish; John Dory; King George whiting; Mullet; Octopus; Perch;  Pilchards; Saw Shark; Sea Mullet; Sea Urchin; Smooth Oreo; Snapper; Southern Calamari; Southern Garfish; Sea mullet; Prawns - king and tiger; Sand Whiting; Trevally; Western Rock Lobsters; Yellowfin Bream.