Peas & Beans

Today has been pretty unremarkable - office work for me, a trip to Lanciole to check on the state of things up there (after not having been for more than 3 weeks) for Stuart. We didn't even make it out for a dog walk, although Reggie got a long session of tug-of-war in the garden this evening.

We did harvest these incredible courgettes though - how one of them grew to the size of a marrow without us noticing it and picking it before now, I don't know!

We are running out of courgette recipes!

We are also collecting eggs from the Phillipses' chickens faster than we can eat them:

We expect to collect another 14-20 tomorrow - we're being overrun!

Tonight's dinner, though, involved neither eggs nor courgettes but some home-grown peas and home-grown broad beans. Adapted from a Jamie Oliver recipe for pea and broad bean bruschetta, we use the lovely fresh-flavoured mix of raw peas, raw broad beans, mint, grated parmesan and olive oil (with a bit of lemon juice and some seasoning) all whizzed up in a blender as a zingy pasta sauce. It's the sort of dish where you can almost feel the goodness as you are eating it.