so i'm on leave at the moment, for like 5 weeks!!1! a couple of weeks on the sapphire coast and the rest at home. this means that there are no boxes for the next short period of time, but i'll still be cooking, and maybe doing some other things and i might post about them, but there are no guarantees.
vincenzo from the work (not her real name..yes, really) donated some vegetable surplus. amazing zucchini, cucumbers - including an apple cucumber, and some dill. there remained the u.f.o. squash from box 11 and an ear of corn. i turned these into fritters (grated the squash and zucc and made a stupidly quick batter of some eggs and flour, some spices and some 'erbs). these were accompanied with a salad and the apple cucumber, quickly pickled (not even really) in some cider vinegar and brown sugar with thin slices of box onion. here is the photo...
was alright. without a doubt the star was the apple cucumber. the fritters were good but not outstanding. i should point out that this was not the fault of the vegetables - the corn/zucc/squash combo was really sweet and 'gentle' (really?). it was the cooking. i got bored and turned up the heat, and then they were cooking too quickly, so i turned it down, and then they weren't cooking, etc. etc. they were supposed to be 'crunchy'...
for herbage, i used some native mint, which i think is really only called mint because it looks a little like colonial (?) mint. it has a much stronger taste and it is a bit turpentiney, but it is good.
so that's it. have fun! i'm looking forward to (i) sandy books, (ii) salty hair, (iii) nanna naps on the deck in the sun, and (iv) soles of my feet that are able to withstand surfaces other than plush-pile carpet.
oh, yeah...also hello to the everyone from outside the LRO who reads this. you should feel free to comment too, but it is not a compliance requirement and there is no auditing or things.
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