I'M not a lover of pork loin - it might be lean but to my mind that makes it dry. Spare rib or shoulder, on the other hand, is usually much more moist and flavoursome thanks to the layers of fat which melt as the meat cooks.

When I spotted a little pork spare rib roasting joint (£2.48 per half kilo) at Watson and Woollard in Kendal the other day, I came up with the following recipe ...

Pile diced carrot, celery and onion in a roasting tin and sit the joint on top. Drizzle with honey mustard (Arran honey mustard is my favourite), season, cover and cook in a medium oven for about an hour and a half. Remove the pork from the tin and stir in some rinsed puy lentils with the vegetables, add some hot chicken or vegetable stock, return the pork to the pan, cover and continue cooking until the lentils have absorbed the liquid (about 30 mins or so).

The meat should fall off the bone - serve with the lentils and a seasonal green vegetable such as broad beans.

Another great combo this week would be either sirloin steak (£7.50 / 500g) or rump steak (£5.75 / 500g) from butcher Peter Hutchinson at Greenodd. The beef is a blue grey cross from farmer S. Hodgson of Tottle Bank Farm near Spark Bridge. Serve with Saxon potatoes from farmer Brian Jackson of Templand Farm Shop at Allithwaite (open Friday and Saturday). Brian, who grows the potatoes himself, reckons they are a good all-rounder and, at only 60p per two kilo bag, are cheap as chips!

Brian has lots of other seasonal veg for sale at the moment - try cucumbers at only 48p each.

You could turn them into a salad with some Blackpool tomatoes (60p per lb) from Fletchers greengrocers in Grange-over-Sands where Jen Fletcher recommends dressing them with Wharfe Valley rapeseed oil from Yorkshire, in either chill, smoked or plain flavour (from £3.60 per 250mls).

I wouldn't recommend any kind of dressing with hand-carved Serrano ham (£3 per 100g) and Manchego cheese (£2.50 per 100g) from Baba Ganoush in Kendal - just a glass of Sangria to complement your Spanish cold plate.

But I do think some of Sarah M's award-winning courgette chutney (new in at Low Sizergh Barn, £3.50 per 300g, also raspberry jam, £2.95 per 227g), would make a super accompaniment for the special offer sausages at Higginsons butcher in Grange. The pick and mix deal - any 3lbs of gourmet sausage for only £8.49 - includes the likes of pork and Stilton, Welsh dragon (no Welshmen or dragons, just pork, leeks and chilli), and butcher Mark's speciality sea salt and cracked black pepper sausages.

Keep an eye out for the samphire version, a seasonal treat - Mark replaces the sea salt with the delicious seashore 'vegetable'.

And before the sweet-tooths among you start to panic ... this week's 'pud' comes from Hazelmere Bakery, also at Grange, which recommends its speciality flourless chocolate cake, perfect for people on a wheat-free diet. Made with ground almonds rather than flour, the cake is topped with real chocolate and decorated with almonds and costs £1.45 a slice.