Courgette Flower

They are so big bold and bright aren't they... :))

The colour is amazing.

My first ones are finished now and I am hoping the second lot, which are just starting to flower, will take over soon!

I had my first ones for dinner the other night, just steamed them off in butter. naughty but nice.

In Rome I had a lunch that was a simple combination of courgettes, thinly sliced, cheese and oil....wow! Could not claim to be healthy I suppose, but it was delish!

Don' think the dinner we had was any better but was good home grown courgettes, home grown carrots, home grown spuds, homegrown broadbeans in parsley sauce and slow cooked ham. now you know why I do not lose weight. lol.

Show off.... :))))

LOL :O) It was good Crissue! I will add though that the spuds were home grown but from a friends garden not mine. lol. I haven't got room for spuds, but they were yummy. :o) The rest were grown in my garden, think there will not be many carrots again until this rain has got down to the roots, I pulled all that were ready, broadbeans as well. So I shall have to make do with whatever comes my way for a few days lol :o) Suppose I could live off the fat reserves for a month!!!

H wants to know if the pig was home reared too...lol

...probably was...it wouldn't surprise me...;)

No but we used to rear our own DIDN'T WE KAREN! lol.

So you two are really related then...it doesn't surprise me, if you reared your own...:)))

I don't remember any pigs, I have to say....goats, chickens, geese, turkeys (yeuch, the plucking!), guinea fowl and ducks, yes, but I don't think you ever had a pig while I was at home. Remember, the goats were for the milk because you couldn't drink Cows' milk.......

Yup, we really are related Crissue!

Excellent...Barbara was one of the first GOYers I met when I joined... :))

:)) That's my Mum!

.....sadly, about 300 miles away for the last 24 years....half my life! Still, we keep up on here nowadays.

300 miles...good lord where are you then...

Well, I am in Carnoustie, about 80 odd miles north of Edinburgh on the Coast. Mum is in N. Lincs....let me find out exactly how far that is for you....348.8 miles so they say on AA route planner! Even further than I thought!

Crissue, Six + hours drive, 4-5 hours train journey away with numerous stops in between trains. lol. Carnoustie is lovely Crissue right on the coast with a beautiful golf course and fantastic scenery. The last time we were all together was for Sarah's wedding (third child) nearly two years ago. We natter for ever on here nowadays, it is good to be able to talk.

I agree especially when you have so much in common..Are the rest of the family Garden orientated...
That's a lot of travelling...about the same for us when we go to the UK...with a Six hour ferry trip in between...

Son isn't, youngest not, because too many wasps and bees for her, she has a phobia, she might when she gets her own garden going. Karen obviously is and Sarah is to the extent she likes plants but hasn't got the time to mess in the garden, she is a school teacher with primary children. So has little time to spare. She is preparing to get everything ready for a big last week at school. The children have grown their own beetroots and she is boiling and pickling it in school next week. The kids are so excited, think she is really. lol. If she ever gets a family of her own I am sure she will find time then to be gardening. I didn't start until after mine had gone to school, something to do with the spare time I suddenly found myself with. lol.

Thanks for that Barbara...interesting family you have there...You certainly put your extra time to good use... :))

:o) certainly is Crissue, varied interests and full of life.

Karen the pigs were here whilst you were still here, we had them more or less straight after moving here, in the little shed at the back. You could have been in college I suppose, that probably explains it. But we had two little porkers, I shall never forget them getting out and Paul trying to catch them. They both shot straight between his legs, all I could do was laugh, I could not help him for laughing. So so funny.

We had goats before we moved here and do you remember Charlie Drake, that large white duck which I had. Remember he walked back to the golfcourse and we had to go and retrieve him. He went again after that and we think the fox got him. We never saw him again. He was huge. We have had a varied menagerie haven't we? But all good memories. Great stuff.

Thanks for that Barbara....H and I have had quite a menagerie over the years, can't do it now though they're a lot of work...

They certainly are Crissue - glad you like my tale.

:)))