In season: February
Vegetables
borlotti beans (fresh in pods), butter beans (aka yellow beans, aka wax beans), green beans (aka french beans, aka string beans), beetroot, red cabbage, green cabbage, capsicum, cucumbers, eggplant, leeks, lettuces, shiitake mushrooms, onions, peas, sugar snap peas, potatoes, pumpkin, silverbeet, snowpeas, spinach, squash, tomatoes, turnips, witlof, zucchini
Herbs, spices and aromatics
basil, chervil, chillies, coriander, curly parsley, dill, flat leaf parsley, Italian Purple garlic, ginger, majoram, mint, oregano, rocket, sage, spring onions (aka green onions, aka shallots – not eschallots), tarragon, thyme, watercress
Fruits, berries and nuts
achacha, almonds, gravenstein apples, blackberries, blueberries, boysenberries, cardinal grapes, honeydew melon, loganberries, nectarines, oranges (Valencia), William pears, Buerre Bosc pears, pistachios, raspberries, rockmelon, rhubarb, strawberries, watermelon
TALES OF A CONFECTIONIST 