Summer Fruit Salad with Sweet Geranium Leaves

MY EDITOR asked me to write a piece on summer food this week for the Irish Examiner Food Festival. This would normally be so easy, lots of salads, a few sizzling barbecue dishes, homemade ice creams, granitas, jugs of fresh lemonade and big bowls of summer berries.

Maybe a picnic by the beach or in a wildflower meadow on the old tartan rug — what a lovely image that conjures up.

The reality this year would probably be sodden food and a miserable picnic, even for hardy adventurers like me who like to picnic throughout the seasons.