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

Higginsons, Grange-over-Sands: Lamb on black' lean, tender boneless single & double loins of local lamb wrapped around award-winning black pudding grill, pan-fry or roast- £8.50 per 500g.

Lunesdale Fruiterers, Kirkby Lonsdale: Local honeycomb (from Ellel, nr Lancaster) - £3.49.

Peter Hutchinson, Greenodd: 5lbs best braising steak (Farmer Ian Edmondson, Newlands near Ulverston) £12.50. Also, whole legs of lamb (from Bandrake, Lowick) - £2.60 per lb.

Low Sizergh Barn Farm Shop: Croglin ewes milk cheese from Thornby Moor dairy at Carlisle - firm, smooth & creamy - £1.68 per 100g.

Country Harvest, Ingleton: Bleikers Smokehouse Applewood Smoked Romanov Salmon with dill & beetroot - £2.45 per 100g pack.

Watson & Woollard, Kendal: Dales Quality Meat ribs of beef, on the bone - £2.33 per 500g.

The Honeypot, Hawkshead: Gluten-free & diabetic biscuits - from £1.25 per 150g pack.

Howbarrow organic farm, Cartmel: English organic apples - Bramley, Discovery, George Cave - £1.95 per kilo.

Dales butchers, Kirkby Lonsdale: Own-cure middle bacon (Gloucester Old Spot pork from Peter Woof at Endmoor) - £2.75 per 500g.

Oddbins, Kendal: Xanadu shiraz cabernet (Western Oz) - soft, easy drinking cassis-laden red - £6.99 or 2 for £10.