Got enough wine glasses, plates, a sharp knife and a decent vegetable peeler?
The following list of ingredients will make a pretty decent vegetable soup.
It also sells seasonal organic vegetables, a decent range of other organic produce and there's a cafe on site.
"Ten years ago, the frequent concern was getting access to decent food, like meat and vegetables," Mr. Li said, "but after a decade of stability and economic development people have aspirations that go way beyond that".
This is a lovely dip for seasonal raw veg: baby carrots, turnips or beets, young broad beans, asparagus, mange tout… Make an effort to get a decent selection of young fresh vegetables that are tender enough to eat raw.
With the exception of one of the chicken chunks in the Bistro Fresh Burgundy Mushroom Chicken, which was nearly raw, and the shrimp in the scampi with pasta and vegetables, which were decent, the chicken, shrimp and salmon in these dishes came out overcooked.
A cut-glass relish tray (heaped with celery, red peppers, sweet peppers, carrots and olives), garlic bread, a large fresh salad with decent dressings, potato or pasta, vegetables and a chocolate thimble of Sambuca -- all appear during the course of a meal.
Schofield went along with the idea that, on balance, Tesco's arrival would be a good thing: "Decent jobs … and cheap, fresh vegetables".
"The vegetables here are in decent shape," she says approvingly.
