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Despite very little sleep on the 'sleeper' up from London, we somehow found enough energy to visit the Edinburgh farmer's market on Saturday. The market consists mostly of little stalls selling a few select gems, rather than larger stalls with a full range of fruit & veg, bread or meat.

Having accepted that we couldn't get all our groceries there, I went searching for gems. The bounty was good: some great mature cheddar from The Island Cheese Company, a nice loaf of light wholemeal bread, a mild but very tasty chorizo, and beautiful lamb's liver and kidney from Cairns Farm in Kirknewton.

I made a nice coarse pate out of the liver and some rosemary, rejecting the farmer's suggestion to batter and fry them - maybe more traditionally Scottish, but difficult in our rather basic kitchen here, and a lot less healthy.

The kidneys were less obvious. I had thoughts of making a pie, but that would have meant passing up on valuable theatre and comedy time. In the end I simply halved, seasoned and fried them till just a little blood remained in the middle. They tasted really good. But the big chance discovery: they worked very well with the cheese.

Still not sure what to do with the Chorizo. It is a bit too chewy to just slice and serve with salad, not strong enough to add loads of  flavour to a dish, but too good to be lost amongst other ingredients.