The first new season picking of any vegetable is always a delight, even just a few baby Courgettes.
These we ate for lunch. They were diagonally sliced, fried in garlic butter, and eaten tepid.
What could be better.
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Mmm, sounds delicious! I like them grilled on skewers with other veggies, too.
ReplyDeleteVeggie brochettes; lovely.
DeleteThis sounds like another great use of your garlic butter from the cabbage dinner. I love baby veggies.
ReplyDeleteDid you eat the blooms ?
cheers, parsnip and thehamish
Garlic butter improves almost everything. No, I'm afraid the flowers were dumped; I really shouldn't.
DeleteHappy to see the yield. It sounds yummy!
ReplyDeleteThis now becomes an almost daily part of our lunches. A few simply fried sliced courgettes with a salad.... lovely.
DeleteRoll on spring and summer!!
ReplyDeleteI think our summer is just beginning; Lady M even managed a swim yesterday (21C).
DeleteOur air temperature forecast for tomorrow is 21 C.
DeleteNice to have produce coming in to the kitchen. We are still waiting.
ReplyDeleteWe almost have too much; it's all come at once as usual. I wish I had your expertise in preserving everything; I only really do tomato based bottling.
DeleteI wonder how different is the tast of the ones that i buy here, a lot i think.
ReplyDeleteYou can't beat home grown young vegs; they're a true pleasure.
DeleteI am blowing a very large raspberry in your direction Cro....we haven't even got our plants in the ground yet, the weather has been so foul!!
ReplyDeleteLovely to see nice fresh courage totes, tho'....
[Courage totes is Apple speak for courgettes....they would like me to type zucchini....which came up in the smellchequer after the double 'c'!! harrumph......]
As you can probably see, the plants are still very young; but highly precocious. I accept your raspberry in the spirit it was sent.
DeleteI tried them last year with a modicum of success. I still haven't planted most of my vegetables this year.
ReplyDeleteEverything is romping away now, it's a matter of keeping up with it all.
DeleteI like seeing them growing and all the leaves and the flowers more than I do eating them.
ReplyDeleteI should think that along with tomatoes, they're the veg that we consume the most.
DeleteI bought courgettes yesterday and am just going to John's site to find his recipe for courgettes and watercress soup, which I shall make for lunch.
ReplyDeleteWhat's not to like; two wonderful flavours.
DeleteOh wow, Cro, I could just hop over the ocean that separates us and come and share your courgettes. I just love this veg and have worked out a zillion ways to eat them. I I grate carrots, onions and courgettes. I saute the onions, then carrots and then the courgettes. Salt, ground black pepper and a squeeze of lemon. Stir fry delciozo !
ReplyDeletePeople here grate courgettes into omelets which is good. My favourite, however, is simply fried in garlic butter.
DeleteJust had my first swim of the year. Only 23C, but it was gorgeous. I feel revitalised.
ReplyDeleteThe water is just nudging 29ºC here, so no excuses !
DeleteI bought little zucchini at my last farmers market visit...and will buy more on my next visit. I still remember growing them in my own Brooklyn garden way back in the mid 1970s.
ReplyDeleteWhile at the farmers market, I asked the mushroom farmer about cepes and girolles. He said that girolles are like chanterelles, and that he will have them in a few weeks. I will keep you updated.
Best wishes.
Some call them Chanterelles, some call them Girolles. All the same.
DeleteThose look wonderful (and tasty!). I love zucchini. Cro, have you ever tried frying zucchini blossoms?
ReplyDeleteGreetings Maria xx
I did try stuffing them once, and frying, but it was a lot of work. I suppose I could simply fry the flowers (empty) along with the fruits. I'll do that tomorrow. Thanks.
DeleteWe are a bit further south I think (Languedoc) and had our first yellow courgettes yesterday. It all seems a bit late as i noted we had our first courgette on May 16th in 2014.
ReplyDeleteI think it rather depends on when they were planted out, and of course if there was late frost. Ours always come round about now, and are always very welcomed.
DeleteI need to check our courgette plants. They have a habit of sneaking up on you, one minute they are tiny and the next minute they've turned into marrows.
ReplyDeleteI shall be picking a second lot today; they need to be watched.
DeleteI neglected to plant any this spring now I wish I had
ReplyDeleteI'm too disciplined, I always leave the first ones to get bigger. :)
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