I can haz break naow?

[catspaw]

Dear Mother Nature/Higher Power/Whom It May Concern,

It's NOT that I don't appreciate your Bounty. I seriously do. I love having a ready supply of fresh, organic veg. But...



do they really all have to come at once regardless of sowing times? I'm drowning under a mountain of mixed metaphors produce here...

I love cauliflower, I really do. Here's a cauliflower:



It's the size of a soccer ball.

I have six of them sitting in my kitchen, waiting to get bagged up and frozen.

I'm also dealing with the Euro mountain of peas, broad beans, carrots, lettuce (what the hell is here to do with lettuce?), strawberries and courgettes (zucchini).

And I'm balefully eying up the raspberries, broccoli, syboes (spring onions, scallions), early onions (red and white) that won't keep that well, cabbage and salad potatoes.

And please don't get me started on the plums...

::sigh:: Summer has its drawbacks.

And the weather's shite too :-(

Comments

[nicci-mac.livejournal.com]

*waves hands in air*

I will take a few of yer hands tomorrow if you like. We loves all that stuffs.

See ya around 9ish

[starting-gate.livejournal.com]

I didn't know you had a green thumb, too!

Wish I could help you out; you're making me hungry. Hmm. I suppose if there was a way to make moonshine out of all that you'd already know about it.

Um. Because of your research skills I mean. Really.

Plum wine, anyone? :p

[feather-autant.livejournal.com]

Ahhh yes, the green thumb strikes again!

Did you ever get the spaghetti squash to grow?

::hugs you tight::

[emgeetrek.livejournal.com]

What a beautiful cauliflower! That pic is food porn; it's got me panting! I'm jealous; in my neck of the woods we don't see cauliflower that good-looking even at the farmers' market. (And the cost, oh, the cost. I tried shopping the farmers' market last year, because I believe in buying local produce when possible. I expected to pay a little more than at the supermarket. In reality, the prices were a LOT higher. Obviously, the best way is to grow it oneself, like you've done--however, I live in a rental space and have no garden. But I digress.)

And I'm giggling about the zucchini. They're just too darned prolific, and they grow too darned fast. Today, the size of cucumbers (I was actually going to write something much cruder *g*); tomorrow, baseball bats. You probably know the trick of coarse grating and freezing in zucchini-bread-recipe sized portions. Yummy quick breads all winter long!

[sharp2799.livejournal.com]

O.M.G.

*drools*

I'm making my soup stock tonight and definitely in the mood (holy crap I typed "food" first) for veggie pr0n pics.

;-)

Now enlighten me dear--what's courgettes?

[perclexed.livejournal.com]

Oooooo mmmmmmm num. God that all sound awesome. Mmmm. Can you make an onion spread of some sort? Can you make jam-like things with onions?

[wadjet-theperv.livejournal.com]

Chutney :oD

That all sounds fab, although I sympathise at the glut, and yes you do complain every year *g* Wish I was nearer to take some off your hands.

[aswanargent.livejournal.com]

How about bagging nice assortments of the fruits and veggies and leaving them anonymously on the neighbours' doorsteps in the dead of night?

Actually, I could have taken a sackful of anything not needing to be cooked off your hands today and been a big hit on the train as we sat and sat and sat and then sat some more at the Waverley Station. My 16:43 train finally left at 21:20, and by then it was three trains' worth of people, because we had the 17:09 people on there as well as the 21:00 folks. Something about a "massive signals failure affecting the entire Fife region". I finally walked in the door here in Stonehaven a little past midnight. And as it's 02:46 now, I think I should call it a day and go to bed! Btw, do you mind if I friend you?