Tuesday 08-08-2014 – Sneak Some Zucchini Onto Your Neighbour's Porch Day

Scallopini are in the same family as zucchini.

Giant Irish zucchini plant 😉 😉

To my mind zucchini or courgette are small in length and girth while marrow are long and large of girth. Any zucchini that is too big to get your hand around comfortably can be classed as a marrow.

Spiralised zucchini(zoodles), a fantastic way to eat your zucchini.

Good morning – I like zucchini, but I haven’t grown any in my garden. Brother has had a rough season with it, only getting a few so far. Not big, but very tasty.

Washed and packed up the kitten stuff yesterday. Yep, I know, well done, and my cats are happy, but I sure miss that little guy.

Aubergine – Eggplant, not zucchini, but simple and good. I love this food writer’s recipe; she doesn’t overcomplicate things:

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/aug/08/baked-aubergine-herbs-goats-cheese-recipe-rachel-roddy

Finally into the cafe today. Went to the fair early today with Avery’s mom and Avery to watch the other granddaughters show their steer and pigs. They did well, no one got hurt, we ate lots of once a year goodies, and came home hot and tired. A successful day!

I knew a lady that used to take her zucchini and put them in people’s mailboxes at night…. 😆 but I told her not to put any in mine because I would know where it came from. They are great for shredding for bread when they are big. I have lots of zucchini recipes, most are vegetarian and very good too.

JJ, I’m sorry you are missing Aslan, it has to be so empty without him. I know how I would feel if Peso was gone… 😥 I made his appointment for his neuter on the 21st. He will be gone for a few hours and I’ll pick him up in the afternoon a ‘changed’ kitten. He will be going to the new vet I’ve been taking him to–the old vet used to keep them overnight and charged an arm and a leg, but this vet costs $60, plus he will get his boosters then too.

Good afternoon all.
I must confess that the giant Irish zucchini plant is actually a plant called Gunnera and not a zucchini plant. Looked amazing though.
JJ, I grow them every year but some years they produce impressive numbers and other years you are lucky if you get enough in a week for a meal.
Empty nest syndrome JJ.
JK, despite having excess zucchini some years I have never made zucchini bread. I must give it a try if this coming Summer is a year of abundant zucchini.
KJ, that is awful about your fav fruit store burning down. I hope there were no injuries and that they re-open. LOL about it being an improvement is some people replaced by a zucchini.
It is election year here and believe me when I say a zucchini would be an improvement for some of our politicians. Nuff said.
KZ, you had me chuckling at ‘no one got hurt’. It is always possible when showing animals and there are crowds. Ohhhhh once a year goodies sounds great.
Today it is pouring down and possibly tomorrow too. HRH was in disgrace for yakking up a furball on the bed, I now have to wash and dry a large candlewick bedspread somehow in Winter. At the moment she is curled up asleep and spent quite a bit of the morning snuggled up on my shoulder.
Time for lunch – a large bowl of piping hot homemade vegetable soup.

Oops, KJ, the sale starts tomorrow (Thursday) I was just looking at this weeks flyers. I went to the metro.ca site and looked up veggie burgers or whatever the exact name on the package was and found the ingredients as well as the K certification.

A nice way of eating burgers is wrapped in a large lettuce leaf, like Romaine…