Courgette and Chilli Salad

I've got lots of courgettes and lots of chillis plus mint and garlic. All home grown so this recipe from Jamie Oliver fits the bill nicely. Full details here.

I thought I'd give it a go tonight. Ames and Jake are away so I thought I'd experiment on myself in case it goes terribly wrong.

The recipe feeds four so I used one courgette instead of four. I sliced this using a cheese slicer which worked really well. I then thinly sliced a medium-sized chilli and half a garlic clove.

I put the courgette slices in a dry hot frying pan. After letting them brown for a few minutes I placed them on a plate and added some salt and pepper. You should wait 5 minutes to let the salt season the courgette.

I sprinkled on the garlic and chilli along with some olive oil and lemon. I had the mint ready to go but I forgot to add it.

It tasted really lovely. The combination of spicy chilli, lemon, olive oil and garlic really worked. I will deifnitely be trying this one again. Yum!!

Monster Courgette

My courgettes are doing really well and have produced some monsters. In total I have three plants which are producing 2 or 3 courgettes every few days. Next year I shall limit it to one plant.

Summer is here

What a lovely day it has been. I was out watering the veggies this morning. My brocolli is going very well and the artichoke has gone bonkers. Last years 'mad' borage has started to appear again. I will move them to Jake's wildflower garden as they threatened to take over last year.

Elsewhere in the raised bed the potatoes are doing well. I have started to raise up the earth either side to encourage more shoots.

It's now 10pm and I have just come back from a slug clearing session. I picked off several of the beasties that were feasting on my potatoes, courgette, spinach and brocolli.

Courgettes and Spinach

I have been busy planting my spinach and courgette seedlings under the cloche. That was two days ago. Luckily the slugs have only had a little nibble of one of the primary leaves on one of the Spinach plants.

I was amazed by how much space one has to give the courgette. It's taken up almost the entire length of the cloche.

Elsewhere in the garden we have Swiss Chard and White Sprouting Brocolli. A gift from my neighbour :-).