Or chervil root - what is the world coming to?!? How am I supposed to make the normal things that I see on the TV?

The chef did actually say you could use a mixture of chervil and mint instead since he was aware chervil root wasn't widely available.

I think it's just the chefs trying to impress everyone. It's a sad one-upsmanship thing. The number of inaccessible ingredients presented on this show is absurd. Just another reason they should scrub this programme off the agenda.....

These ingredients are all just so silly. This programme is so ill-conceived. They really don't have a clue what they're doing.

Lately the show has been all over the place. I think the producers are now just stabbing in the dark.

delia still reigns supreme for easy to understand recipes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

arthur

Come now, we all use chervil root, rattlesnake, puffball mushrooms, samphire on a dialy basis. Certainly Delia does, or does she? Well, maybe everyone who works on such pointless, vacuous, trendy sets, whacky camera, faddy tosh TV such as this, but I don't.

I also am going struggle to get the ingredients from our local market unless I have a recipe for rubbish towels and cheap batteries. This is elitest tripe. At least GFL tried, was funny, informative and flowed.

How do we stop this rubbish? I can't believe a tv show has me so worked up!

ponders - I think you'll find them in aisle 11 just next to the locusts

cheers rick, found them today -must have had a big delivery due to demand of people asking for them after seeing them on GFL. watch out though if you do get them, there were some imported kenyan and dutch ones. wouldn't want to have to eat anything that wasn't produced locally and readily available now would we.

Market Kitchen is 100 this week. Is that in years???????
It must be in years because it reminds me of the joke/
I spent a fortnight in Milton Keynes / last monday afternoon
No offence Milton Keynes[just insert any boring place]

I am so glad to read rick and cooking4one's post! I thought I was the only commoner who sets foot in a.....dare I say it.....tesco. I look at the reipes and know I shall never be able to purchase a quail, grouse, pigeon, partridge or even a pigs head. Even the butcher in the mall doesn't stock them.

Has anyone seen a Hare about in your local supermarket?

Was explained at the start that Hare is not available in Supermarkets.
We have two ears and one mouth so that we should listen twice as much as we speak.

I like Market Kitchen when Tana-Tom and Diana demonstrate recipes. They are very watchable.The master chefs what ..ordinary basic cook.. can purchase their ingredients? this week is a good example!

I can't get through a whole programme Barshedale before I have to wander off, physically or mentally. Shame really. However, if ingredients on this or any other show are not readily and easily available, people are not going to cook them.

So right, posset. This show get worse and WORSE!!!

The occassional weird and unusual ingrediant is fine, but this ongoing parade of odd stuff is just beyond the pale. No one is going to cook any of this stuff.

Junk recipes, junk programming.

Please cancel this show before you have to cancel the whole channel.

Just because an ingredient isn't available in a supermaket doesn't mean it is unavailable or even hard to obtain.

The latest example of Hare. Any good fishmonger who also does Game will be able to order in for you, a good butcher should also be able to help, and farmers markets are also very useful and helpful.

In this day and age when we are advised so much to use our local suppliers and ingredients, using something not available in a big bad supermarket shouldn't be a problem.

Strange how "junk" food and recipes were associated with the lazy young mother with young children who couldn't be bothered or didn't know how to cook. Now it is being called such on recipes and ingredients which are deemed beyond the average person on a show deemed to be too "upper class"

I agree completely about this ingredient issue. The once-off use of an unusual ingredient is one thing but Market Kitchen just goes on day after day wiht such weird stuff and inaccessible ingredients it is turning off the viewers.

This show is doing sucvh a disservice to the hope of re-awakening the local, home chef it is a tragendy.

No wonder no one wants to cook anything at home anymore.

To hell with hare and big's brains.

Yuk!!

I often wonder if cooks on TV use unusual ingredients to avoid "recipe theft" or whatever these recipe infringement rules are called !

Grisinni I can understand what you're getting at, but how can they prevent theft...they're presenting these dishes in front of the viewing public [admittedly a small public].

They can hardly keep the recipe from being "stolen".

To me this recent spate of exotica has more to do with the producers of the show trying to do something [not quite clear what as yet]

But Diana Henry's venison liver dish or the rattlesnake composition are simply OTT without any redeeming value.

Yes, yes, I know: "rattlesnake tastes like chicken"

I thought I found a fish monger the other day in a pub carpark in maidstone. Lobster tails only a pound each! I rushed home to make the hollandaise sauce. But then found that thy were really like those giant ocean sticks...no lobster in them at all

If only I lived near borough market...