"Okay, it might not be a dish, but Glasgow’s Roots Fruits and Flowers emporium is a bit of an institution in the city, with enough vegetables and fruit to give you the most severe of vitamin overdoses."
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The wonders of tumeric milk
It’s that time of year again when everyone around is trying their best to fight off colds, flu and the January blues. Much has been said about the benefits of drinking turmeric milk, or ‘Golden Milk’ as it’s also known. The curative properties of turmeric have lent it to be used as a spice in Indian recipes and in medicine in Ayurveda for thousands of years. It’s a both a powerful antioxidant and potent anti-inflammatory, it has antibacterial and antiseptic properties, can help with relieving pain from oestoarthritis and recent studies have even shown that helping treat depression.
This is a drink that not only tastes delicious but offers an abundance of health supportive benefits to for the body and is particularly beneficial to drink during the winter months to give an added boost to support of the immune system.
Follow this very simple recipe using ingredients that can all be found in our shops.
Ingredients
This week’s featured product is the award winning, beautifully bitter oranges from the Ave María farm in Seville!
About Ave María
The Ave María farm is widely considered to be one of, if not the best supplier of bitter oranges in the world for two fundamental reasons: because of the composition of the soil, which provides a special sweetness to the orange, and because of the organic cultivation, which preserves the aroma and purity of the fruit. Keeping up the tradition, Ave María is currently run by three women who are passionate in looking after all of the details of their precious orchard.
Photo: Ave María farm
What do I do with them?
Photo: 'The Bitter End' Kinfolk magazine
It’s time to seize the short Seville season and get marmalade-making! Indeed, one of our customers ‘Galore!’ won world’s best marmalade at the annual world marmalade championships this year no less!
If you’re looking for some more inspiration, check out this quick & easy recipe for the 'Ultimate Seville Orange Marmalade' on BBC Good Food. We also love the beautiful photo essay ‘The Bitter End’ all about the ‘maddening pursuit’ of marmalade-making in issue 13 of Kinfolk magazine, subscribers can also read online here.
Photo: 'The Bitter End' Kinfolk magazine
This season, not only have the bitter ‘Sevilles' come on a bit earlier but we should soon also have their beautifully sweet ‘Navelina' oranges available too - so pop in and get yours soon from our wholefoods store and fruit & vegetable merchant.
We now have a huge selection of wonderful real Christmas trees for sale in our new space at 459 Great Western Road! 
Beautiful Nordmann firs in all different shapes & sizes with smooth, shiny leaves and low needle drop as well as Scottish living container trees.
Come down and browse inside our nice dry space, our lovely staff will be at hand to help you pick out the perfect tree for your home. We can also deliver trees in the local area for £5 - to arrange a delivery please call the fruit & veg shop on 0141 334 3530.
We had a great time at last week's BBC Good Food Show at the SECC. It was wonderful to see many new, familiar and even some famous faces stop by our stand over the weekend. It was also a great opportunity to meet many other fantastic exhibiters from all over the country.
We hope to be back next year!
Catriona Banks, Speciality Food Manager, BBC Good Food Show: “There was such a huge range of nominations that made this a really difficult choice. Roots Fruits and Flowers were a standout entry due to their fantastic range of goods and buzzing atmosphere. The judges were so impressed with the visit – the shop looked lovely and the staff were fantastically helpful. I’m sure this will be a really beautiful, popular stand with visitors at the Show!”
We are thrilled and can't wait until the show, we hope to see some of you there at our stand at the SECC from the 6 - 8th of November!
Big thanks to The Skinny who have named us as one of Scotland's best food shops in their 2015 Food and Drink Survey.
Shout out to some of our Kelvinbridge and Great Western Road neighbours who also got a mention - The Belle, Inn Deep and Papercup.
You can view the full list here.
Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
