FAO WM

[JanB]

Guess what I saw in Aldi this morning??

Shallots

[TheOstrich]

Plenty here, but at an eye-watering price.

Same with fennel.

[JoM]

Tesco haven’t had them for weeks when I’ve tried to order them.

[Workingman]

Jan, shallots are onions, just a different cultivar like red onions and leeks.

TV chefs (cooks) like them because shallots sound more 'posh' than onion.

Just use small onions - a fraction of the price, same taste.

Os, fennel, get the seeds, almost free, grow your own.

[Suff]

For me you can keep the fennel.

We grow shallots in the garden. Onions too. But they don't last all year. Last year Mrs S was so dejected we hardly planted much in the garden and not much of that grew. Looking to a better year this year.