Post 116: Gigantism of the Vegetables

It's been a little while since I posted my gardening progress. I have gigantism of the courgette and truly massive lettuce - so massive in fact it no longer looks like a lettuce.

I gave one huge lettuce away to a lady at work who has a rabbit: but apparently too much lettuce can lead to rabbitt trots, and that's no good thing for a house rabbit.

Next up is the courgette, this one went from quite small to huge within a week:

It definitely needed to be picked in a hurry. I'd probably already left it a little too long, as already it was slightly watery when cooked. Generally I try to brown the sides of a courgette when I put them in pasta as I think it tastes a little better that way, but this just wasn't possible this time.

Regular visitors to these shores will know my fondness for chorizo pasta dishes, which is what I knocked up here - in the most home grown meal I've managed yet:
- Garlic and onions from the garden
- aforementioned big courgette
- chillies, pepper, and cherry tomatoes which I'd had to buy. Although I'm hoping for chillies and tomatoes soon.
- cook them all and stir through the cooked, drained pasta. No point making life hard is there?

Here it is, not my finest but nice enough:

Several things learned here:
1) Pick courgettes before they get too big (they keep a while in the fridge in any case)
2) Sainsbury's Chorizo isn't as nice as Tesco's (yeah, I know I'd like to avoid supermarket shopping, but needs must sometimes)
3) I like thin pasta best.

What isn't learned yet, is what the be-jaysus I can do with a 2 foot lettuce.