Food stuff

Tonight's supper was combined home-grown zucchini, Swiss chard and shell peas with fish and chips from the freezer aisle.  (We don't have a fish pond and our potatoes aren't ready yet.)  The zucchini was our first Costata Romanesca, a variety reputed to be tastier than the basic smooth dark green zucchini we have grown the last few years.  It was good, but I couldn't tell that it was really different from the others.  It was a bit pale, though.  The recommended size is 10-15 inches and we took it at ten.  Maybe we'll let the next one grow bigger.  There were also a couple of little deformed individuals, darker than this nice specimen and looking a bit like long balloons only half blown up.

This wasn't our first summer squash of the season, though.  On Tuesday I took a chance on a few papaya pear squashes, uncertain if they were the right size and shape, and sliced them up for the barbecue.  Completely lacking any culinary intuition, I seasoned them with thyme and sage only because it was available at the other end of the same garden bed.  They were tasty and beautiful.  Now we have a couple that have grown bigger, so we can find out if that's better.




After supper we had a small quantity of berries to enjoy.  Strawberries have been available for about two weeks now, raspberries for a couple of days.  It's not a huge amount, but a huge treat to slowly savour a small handful of these intensely flavoured fruits every evening.

Everything is growing so fast, the once-a-month photo is not enough.  The standard shot from the upstairs window was taken in the morning sun.  The camera instruction book might give me a hint for how to deal with the reflected sunlight, if I ever bother to read it.