What's In Season - The Blog

Our pick of the best seasonal fruit, veg and stems at Roots Fruits & Flowers this month.

Greengages
Sweet little juicy dessert plums, and not always green! Greengages are delicious eaten raw or cooked in desserts (try a nice crumble or pie!) or turn them into a jam.

Apples
We've got a whole range of delicious apples in stock at the moment, both from UK orchards and further afield. Back on the shelves is the popular Discovery which has a wonderful sweet, lightly acidic taste with a slight strawberry flavour making it one of our favourites.



Physalis
Also known as Chinese Lanterns, these beautiful stems of bell-shaped flowers are back on our flower stand this month. Featuring in many of our Autumn bouquets and on their own they make a great addition to the home at this time of year. You can also buy the fruits from these plants in the fruit & veg shop!

Courgettes
Cheap, versatile and easy to cook - fry, roast, steam or grill them. Great in pasta dishes, on tarts and even in cakes!



Sugar Pie Squash
Super cute and very tasty. Sweeter than larger carving pumpkins (and a little less messy!), roast them and you can use the flesh in a variety of dishes - soups, risotto, pies etc.

From Monday 22nd of August hundreds of products from our wholefoods & organics stores and flower shop will be available to order online for deliveries to homes & businesses in Glasgow or to collect in-store on whichever day suits you best!

We of course want you to continue coming into our shops (the true heart of Roots & Fruits and where you'll find all of our fresh produce & deli specials). But for those days when you're too far away or too busy to stop in, we hope our new online shop will mean you can keep filling your cupboards with all of your favourite organic, local, fair trade, gluten free, vegan & other speciality products and in turn continue supporting local business!

To begin with we'll be offering only local delivery to postcodes in Glasgow, but make sure you subscribe to our mailing list to be notified when we begin UK wide deliveries.

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We're pleased to be listed 1st under Glasgow's best delis in the country's top selling travel guide, Scotland the Best by Pete Irvine.

All-round, all-good-things-in-life provisioner of the West End: the flower shop, the deli and the fruit and veg together offering a superlative service. Makes you wonder why all things can't be as good as this.

We are delighted to have been mentioned by Great British Chefs in their Glasgow city food guide!

Roots, Fruits and Flowers – With a branch in both Woodlands and Finnieston, this jauntily named florist, grocer and deli keeps health-conscious inhabitants of the West End well stocked in all sorts of virtuous produce. Freshly baked loaves are also available, along with a range of fresh salads and deli items. It's easy to while away a long time in the grocer next door (despite its relatively small size), and the friendly staff leave you to prod, poke and sniff the fruit and vegetable selection to your heart's content.

Read the whole feature here.

Take a look at the Roots & Fruits kitchen's new Cakes to Order menu, featuring a delicious selection baked goods including some of our speciality vegan and gluten free cakes, tarts & tray bakes.

We're delighted to now be stocking Mheat in our wholefoods and organics store. Mheat is Paisley Glasgow based food company Sgaia's new plant-based, vegan, meat replacement that's quickly gaining a fantastic reputation.

Hilary and Alberto from Sgai describe themselves as enthusiastic explorers, dedicated learners, avid listeners and happy herbivores. They are passionate about food culture, nutrition, health and learning about the cultural significance of food in relation to current social systems and environments.

"Here at Sgaia we strongly believe in making plant-based lifestyles and dietary choices equal to those of omnivores. Plant-based living is often seen as a 'giving-up' on food culture, in order to embrace another. We believe that a change in lifestyle shouldn't necessarily mean a change in what we identify with in terms of food culture, nor should it involve being forced to purchase expensive, imported foods. This is why we're proud to be an entirely UK based company, striving to get us all surfing on this New Wave of British Vegan Living."

We just recently started stocking some of their tasty vegan Mheat products.

"Mheat is our own take on a very popular, originally asian food, seitan. Seitan (say-tan) is, essentially, a food made with the protein extracted from wheat flour: gluten. Wheat gluten, as a food product, originated in China sometime around the 6th Century, and was especially popular as a substitute for meat amongst buddhists. Lovingly hand-made by us as per the traditional method, with a few little tweaks here and there, our unique recipe is flavourful, high in protein, low in fat, and features all the knowledge we’ve developed overtime in our little kitchen."

We're very excited about this young, local company and can't wait to see what they produce next and we look forward to continuing to stock our shelves with their wonderful products for all of our vegan customers to enjoy.

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We have a tasty variety of organic, fair trade and dairy-free Easter eggs from the likes of Montezuma's, Divine and Moo Free now for sale in our wholefoods & organics store on Great Western Road.