...your guide to local, seasonal and speciality food & drink.

Bowland Bridge Stores: Own-make damson vinegar - use as a dressing, marinade, glaze, or for stir-fries - £2.35 (300mls).

Cartmel Village Shop: Tangy lemon chutney from Hawkshead Relish Company. Use as a marinade for chicken or pork or serve with fish - £2.75 (210g jar).

Hazelmere Bakery, Grange-over-Sands: Own-make lemon cheese with fresh lemons, eggs & sugar. Beautifully smooth - £1.58 (200g jar) - Recipe idea: stir into crumbled meringues and top with cream for an instant yet impressive dessert.

Growing with Grace, organic market garden, Clapham: Golden cherry tomatoes - £3.25 per kilo.

A Taste of Lakeland, Ambleside: New line from Simply Vegetarian ready meals (Melmerby)

seasonal vegetable crumble, vegetable shepherd's pie & vegetable curry - single portions - £3.

Plumgarths farm shop: Lakeland beer selection Tirril, Barngates, Hawkshead, Dent, Strawberry Bank - (500mls) £1.99.

Steadmans, Sedbergh: Fresh duck legs £2.45 half kilo (£1.30 each) or special offer: 5lbs for £10.49, also available fresh duck breast & duck fat for confit.

Hutchinsons, Coniston: Sausages - beef & tomato, garlic & black pepper, chilli & lime..£2.20 per half kilo.

Richardsons, Bowness: Fresh chickens (Langwathby) BBQ spit-roasted - £3.95 each.

Greenbanks, Kendal: New season English Bramley apples - £1.50 per kilo.

Kendal Fisheries: Fresh sea trout - £4.95 per lb Fresh dressed, crabs - £2.60 each.