Sunday, 5 February 2012
A Bumper Crop
You know you've grown too many beans when you start using them as bookmarks:
And don't get met started on zucchini (courgettes, to English readers). The annual glut is upon us, and their charm appears to be lost upon my husband, who can spot them, no matter how carefully concealed, in any dish, but particularly objects to them turning up in chocolate ice cream.
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Lovely to hear that you are also a keen vegetable gardener, zedders. I also grew some 'courgettes' last year; at least that's what I thought they were judging by the picture on the (Romanian) packet; and OH MY how vigorously they grew; goody goody, I thought to myself, the rataoille (spelling?) is on me; except that they turned out to be marrows..... totally tasteless.
ReplyDeleteI can send you a recipe for a thing called a slice, where you grate marrow, cheese, add ham, onion, eggs, flour, cook in oven and you hardly notice the marrow has no taste - I've only used it with zucchini/courgettes that have grown too large, but they are as tasteless as any marrow. Glad you aren't frozen - they have been showing pics of Romania on the news, with major ice and snow et cetra.
DeleteYes, we do get 'a lot of weather' over here. Cluj/Kolzsvar, however, somehow always seems to avoid the worst of it, probably because it has a crappy little river instead of some majestic-yet-unscrupulous torrent flowing through it.
ReplyDeleteHmm, but is it actually worth including marrow in that yummy sounding dish you have described? Wouldn't almost anything else, e.g. cardboard, achieve much the same effect?
It is, if you start from the premise that you've got all this marrow to deal with and it's easier to use that than go out and find cardboard on a rainy afternoon.
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