Matters vegetable...

A little over a week ago we grabbed a bunch of courgettes off one of our plants on the upper bed and cooked them up with various other stuff – much of it home produced - for a tasty meal. We have had several meals from the two plants we have, now and that’s not including the cucumber, tomatoes (which will soon be in glut!) and mange touts. After a slow start because of the long winter, it’s been very good on the garden produce front.

This time last week we noticed that there were three or four new courgettes growing, but they were as yet only small, so we left them to put on a bit of volume. By Saturday they had come along nicely and we picked them. One had clearly enjoyed the weather and had grown, in less than a week, from something about an inch and a half long to become a reasonable sized marrow.

Quite how the brute grew so quickly is anybody’s guess. You might have almost expected to hear it expanding over the five or so days it more than quintupled in size.



We looked up recipes for baked marrow/courgette and ended up with something that looked and sounded exceptionally tasty – onions, tomatoes and the ground up insides of the marrow, seasoned with fresh basil, pepper and a sprinkling of salt, topped off with plentiful mozzarella.



This was all baked for around 40 minutes and it smelled and looked bloody fantastic.


It tasted like boiling water with cheese in it. Back to the drawing board…

As time goes by

I am a little narked with Livejournal. Even though we’re not as close as we once were, I like to pop by from time to time and say hello, sprinkle a few words here and there, catch up with my chums both real and imagined and then saunter on again for a while.

With very few exceptions, I have not generally taken people off my friends list even where they no longer update and I have no plans to do so. Those quondam friends and acquaintances I have removed have gone for reasons I no longer recall and where someone has actively deleted their journal, I left them there as a reminder of the aulde days when there was more activity around here, and less of it Russian.

But looking today, I see that there are only two accounts scored through; the rest of the deleted ones have gone. The two currently scored through clearly went quietly and stealthily, or if they announced their intentions it happened on a day I failed to check. It makes me a little sad to see that there is no record, even a crossed out account name, of some of these people.

Ah well. I guess there will be traces here and there. Even where the account name has gone from the friends list, there may be the odd reference back in old journal entries, or comments from the lost friend sitting dustily and unregarded.

Time moves on.