If you boil purple French beans they turn a dark grey-green.

Serves 6-8

Recipe for Cheese Sauce

Glebe Brethan cheese is available at The Pig’s Back in Cork’s English Market, URRU in Bandon and Mallow; in Dublin at Cavistons of Glasthule, Listons of Camden St, Fallon & Byrne in Exchequer St, Fothergills in Rathmines, Thomas Murphys in Foxrock, Olive in Skerries, Farmleigh Market; Sonairte in Laytown and Castlewellan in Co Down.

Serves 6.

Recipe for Doune McKenzie’s Cheese Biscuits.

Delicious Gourmet Food Store now open on Well Road, Douglas, Cork — www.delicious.ie. Free parking to rear of store.

This combination of flavours is delicious. Restaurants should identify the butchers and farmers that supply their meat, so they can get credit for producing real quality.

Slow Food Barbecue in Kilrush, Co Clare on Sunday, June 10, in the Community Garden. Admission, €20 for Slow Food Members, €25 for non-members and children under 12 free.

Bottled Strawberries