The day temperatures are slowly falling and nights are much cooler, even cold already. The garden has nearly finished its production, even though there are still some tomatoes and haricot-beans, and of course few melons, to come. If the weather stays warm enough, that is.
The selection of the last strugglers; they don't look so good anymore but are still good enough to eat.
I made some soup out of them and it turned out really good. Even if I was a little bit liberal with the chili flakes...Completely by accident of course! A good dollop of cream sorted that one out.
The haricot bean plants, despite being ravaged by some disease, are doing their best to produce as much as they can before the end. They just keep giving and giving.
These will be perfect with salmon!
All summer long I've been planning to cut some courgette flowers to eat them. Just when I thought I'd left it too bloody late, as usual, few more flowers came out and this time I didn't hesitate but cut them quickly.
The flowers were full of teeny tiny ants which I had to remove first. Easier said than done; the little blighters hang on for their dear lives and no amout of water seemed to get them evicted. Finally I managed to get the flowers clean and I could start planning my lunch.
I filled the flowers with a mixture of mascarpone cheese, garlic, parmesan and grated lemon peel, dipped them in an egg and a flour and water mix and cooked them in the oil. Delicious!
I made some onion rings too. Equally delicious.
I have started saving seeds from our plants (or any vegetable really that passes through the kitchen) and here are some from our own tomatoes. Old varieties, such as: Red Russian, Berner Rose and Black Pineapple.
The first time that I've saved tomato seeds so not sure if I'm doing it right.
Well, here goes! We'll see what happens next year.
And moving on to other fruits...I went and bought (again!) a 5 litre container of excellent rose wine from one of our local winemakers, and it cost only 7 euros! Can't get that from the supermarket! Nor the quantity nor the quality.
That'll be my one of five-a-day! Fruits, not bottles, to be precise.
Here it goes into the bottles...
...that filled six normal size bottles and one smaller one. Happy days!!
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