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The inevitable season change has come and my summer veg is looking a little worse for wear. The extra moisture and cool temperature have turned my lovely looking zucchini plants into a pile of sad sack rubbish looking foliage. They’re covered in a mildew substance yet to be identified (don’t really care what and please don’t tell me if you know what it is as I like living with mystery) and the large jungle size leaves are now a pale white.
I plucked the last few zucchini and made an ultra evil cheesy pasta with Philly cream, peppered peccorino, white wine, smoked eel, lemon, pine nuts and fresh basil.
We’ve had a good supply of zucchini over summer, that we’ve grown in our little cottage garden and now it’s time to pull up the sad looking plants and pop in some winter veg.
Oh and this dish works well with plenty of cracked Tasmanian Mountain pepper…not that everyone is as lucky as I am to have access to it but a lovely friend got me some hand picked off a hillside somewhere in Tasmania.
Sounds (and looks) delish! Our zuchs keeled over weeks ago from x mildew – you’ve done well to get them this far into the season.
Still got a couple on the plant here – as well as some smallish ones just harvested sitting on the kitchen counter. They will go into tonights chicken with pasta I think.
Having not grown the yellow – do you have a preference?
Sue they taste the same I reckon! But the yellow look way radder. I have a few plants still in the front yard but not much is happening on them and as much as it pains me I think it’s time to pull them up and replace them with broccoli.
I love your photography! And what a great idea to add smoked eel to pasta. The only seafood I’ve had with pasta were salmon and mussels – on different occasions.
This images completely translate the feel of autumn slowly coming and people huddling up in warm huts, gathering for winter… very beautiful and delicious looking!
Beautiful images. That light really captures the vegetables gorgeously. I’m a bit jealous, I wish I had my own garden!
Hi. I am loving your blog. I am currently trying to get better at eating what I grow and I think your blog is going to give me so great ideas. It is also so fascinating to me that you are in the exact opposite of where I am in the gardening cycle because of us being on different sides of the world. My squash plants have just started coming up. I just did a post yesterday about how tired I am of winter crops and how much I want some squash, beans and tomatoes.