I saw some beautiful paintings of vegetables in the book 'In the Kitchen' by Yuko Yamamoto the other day. (I saw them here, at Hanna's blog.) They were so simple and evocative. They made me think of the two zucchini (courgette) plants in our front garden, which at the moment are growing so wildly they are creeping out of the gate and across the street. I have to keep cutting them back so passers-by don't trip on their tendrils and leaves. I couldn't resist doing a quick watercolour painting of them.
We've been grating the street-zucchini up and making simple little fritters for dinner quite often. I've also left bundles of them by the letterbox with a sign that says 'home-grown zucchini, please help yourself.' The children are very keen for people to take them away.
But my favourite thing to do with them is make chocolate-zucchini cake. I made one last night- using a recipe quite similar to this one (but with greek yoghurt instead of milk). It came out quite moist and sticky, yet light. Thank you zucchini…
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