The first beauty from my garden, together with the first picking of beans.
I sliced and grilled the zucchini to include in ....
... vegetable lasagne, enjoyed with the beans. The lasagne fed me for 2 nights and another 2 servings are in the freezer.
Zebbycat just snoozled on as there was no meat in this cooking
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Looks good and I bet it tasted great as well. Cats aren't very interested in the cooking unless meat is involved and then they are all over it (please, please I'm hungry, just a little taste - at least thats what I think Cody tries to say :)
Interesting zuke, did you buy the seed or was it cross bred in your garden?
Even though we just finished dinner, your dinner looks yummy. We also had green beans. They were frozen from Belgium. Tiny and tender. We get quite a lot of frozen veg from Europe. In the winter it is usually fresher than fresh.
I bought the seed and planted just the one. Kamokamo, also known as Kumikumi, is a local plant that Maori have grown for a very long time (I really should make the effort to get some heritage seeds). The flesh is a little sweeter and firmer than that of the zucchini.
Looks and sounds delicious!
This gave some inspirations for a nice meal. Many thanks :)
Of course he just snoozled. Thor would have been waiting for his share, however. I'm so happy to see some results from your garden! I can't wait to be able to start mine. I guess we have to admire each other's while ours are dormant!
I'm SO jealous! (of your fresh veggies)
Hello Mickle
Now that looks like a big one - more llike a vegetable marrow than a zuccini but as you said its a local variety slightly different to the common and garden one.
BTW good on your Gran for teaching you some knitting skills when you were young. Did you carry on knitting at that age or come back to it when you were a little older. Were you doing socks recently - or was that someone else?
Take care
Cathy
Sock confession - the very first ever sock that I made last year is still lingering, waiting for me to fix a dropped stitch and knit the last few rows. It is one of 2 UFO* knitting projects waiting for my attention after I finish the big maroon wrap.
(*UnFinished Objects)
How did I miss this post??
It looks so mouth-drooling that I wish I were there! Of course I'd be passing on the flour part - what kind did you use?
I love beans - raw - freshly washed out of the garden. Even better - raw peas.
BTW Mickle - how is that big maroon thing - sorry stole/wrap - coming on?
Hello Mickle
See (via the cricket) it was a 'bit windy' at your place today. The news bulletin made light of the fact it took oodles of men to hold the covers down - and then they blew away lol
Yes, when your lads did so well Welly tried the gale force winds. A few stops and starts yet the match goes on. Is too way too windy for me to put out the rubbish and recycling bags for Tuesday morning pick-up - would all end up back down here!
Wow, lucky you for having your own crop of zucchini! I have never seen that type before, I keep saying I want to grow some because I would really like to make some stuffed zucchini flowers.
Peasepudding - Zukes should grow really well where you live in NZ. I raised mine from seed very easily. Do try growing them next summer - hey, my plant is in a recycling bin!
Further explanation - the Kamo/Zuch hybrid plant is growing in a container that just happens to be a recycling bin.
Pease Pudding send me an email (mickle AT clearDOTnetDOTnz) - I can send you some seed for next summer, along with seeds for little gem squash (also known here and in Oz as scallopini, and in the UK as Pattypan squash). The worst these plants have done here is to take over my ZebbyCat's favourite spot to sit in the sun on that side of our home.
Hey, Hi Mickle! I've been lax at reading posts so I just got caught up on your last couple and was so shocked at the storm that tried to move Wellington to Oz! Thank goodness you and dear Zebby are alright...mini-tornados are the kind of thing we see here in Mississippi, I didn't realize you could be in the path of that weather, too.
Your dinner here looks sooo tasty, and right out of your garden,too. Somehow that makes things taste much better. Spring beginning here, you know, so we'll put a tomato plant in and wait for a bounty like last years. When we lived in Arizona, the most we could expect from a plant were 2 tomatoes, and the birds usually got them first!
Ha, funny about the large Tui bird and purple berries (not so funny on the sheets!) We had red pyracantha bushes in AZ and those, out of the butt of a bird, made a royal mess LOL! Glad you like to watch birdies, too...they have personalities and spats and loves like a human village.
love and huggles to you and Zebbycat from me and Kitterz and Gizmo (who cowers from thunder, too, and snuggles up to Kitters during a storm :o)
So good to have you visit my blog and
Hi Michelle, I saw one of those Maori type of zuke on Biggest Loser last night. Yes, must admit I sometimes watch TV !! I had to come back today, just to make sure it was the same as yours.
I also saw (on TV) what your windy Wellington tried to do to our cricket team....when you cant beat 'em, blow them away LOL !! and,I thought WE had strong winds here high on top of the hills. Batten down the hatches Michelle, make yourself and Zebby safe. I wouldn't dare to venture out in such weather.
Award for you over at mine!
That looks too wonderful for words! Our garden is just getting started, so I'll be sharing our bounty with you when you're deep in fall! Hugs to the Zebbycat and of course to our Mickle...
Sandi
Yum! Yum! This looks delicious.
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