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Simsqu Proved Correct
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Simsqu Proved Correct
Article in the paper today announced that some poor chap was suffering with "Toxic Courgette Syndrome", seems there's quite a lot of it about. It appears Simsqu knew something we didn't!!!!
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Re: Simsqu Proved Correct
Erm, what???
(just heard report of courgette poisoning ont' wireless, but don't see your reference).
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Searched query: toxic courgette
(just heard report of courgette poisoning ont' wireless, but don't see your reference).
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Re: Simsqu Proved Correct
https://metro.co.uk/2020/08/21/man-pois ... -13157936/
Gourd help the poor chap. He'll be feeling a bit seedy for several more weeks, apparently.
BJ
Gourd help the poor chap. He'll be feeling a bit seedy for several more weeks, apparently.
BJ
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Rhyd6 wrote:Article in the paper today announced that some poor chap was suffering with "Toxic Courgette Syndrome", seems there's quite a lot of it about. It appears Simsqu knew something we didn't!!!!
R6
AHA!!!
During lockdown my missus has converted part of our estate (one small patch of dirt in our postage stamp sized London garden) into a vegetable plot. We have enjoyed her crop of broad beans: 12 in total (beans not plants or pods), carrot (singular), delicious red gooseberries from which I made - quite literally - a dessertspoon of compote, plus a few other items such as potatoes and tomatoes, both of which I have to say have been very good.
Whilst enjoying a coffee on the patio a few weeks ago, I pointed to a quite vigorous plant in its own pot, sporting a magnificent yellow flower.
"What's that?"
"It's a courgette flower.
Would you like me to get a towel to wipe you down? Was that coffee hot?"
"Will it produce a courgette?"
"I think we need to have a talk. You see, when a mummy loves a daddy very much..."
"Ok, ok, just keep it the hell away from me"
-------- Intermission --------
(picture of potter's wheel)
A week or so later, and voila - one yellow courgette.
She picked it, sliced it thinly, chargrilled it and had it with a salad for lunch.
"Any good?"
"......not really"
AHA!!!
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Re: Simsqu Proved Correct
Courgette flowers are firmly on the menu in Italy. Often served in batter, where they might go alongside other battered food like scampi.
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Re: Simsqu Proved Correct
Snorvey wrote:
Tom and Barbara live!
More like Terry and June, regrettably.
Also UncleEbenezer, I have often had courgette flowers in Rome and rather like them
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Re: Simsqu Proved Correct
Just in case there are any more to be had from this year’s harvest...
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyl ... -spicy-dal
And just a BTW, I tried the search facility to find this thread. Only remembered it had Simsqu in the title so that’s what I searched for. Three posts found, nothing relevant.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyl ... -spicy-dal
And just a BTW, I tried the search facility to find this thread. Only remembered it had Simsqu in the title so that’s what I searched for. Three posts found, nothing relevant.
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GrahamPlatt wrote:Just in case there are any more to be had from this year’s harvest...
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyl ... -spicy-dal.
Bloody hell, that's too much courgette work. Peel, bake, slice, singe, soak, spiral-cut, put in the oven and do it all over again. Wasn't it Shirley Conran who said (in 1975) that life was too short to stuff a mushroom? Well, the same goes for courgettes. And I speak as someone who grows them.
Billions of the things. Usually from four plants. If you've got enough plants to produce enough at the beginning and end of the season, you're going to be swamped to desperation in mid-season. The monstrous plant in the Little Shop of Horrors had nothing on ours. Small children, cats and puppy dogs have wandered into our veg patch and never been seen again.
The courgettes I want go into my famous five minute casseroles, of which I make quite a lot. The rest go on the compost heap, unless I can give them away - and they can make awkward gifts, being (ahem) slightly phallic. A few get barbecued. If there's a way of freezing courgettes, maybe I'd be interested in keeping a few. But honestly, if you're spending more than three minutes preparing these things, then Ms Conran's advice still stands. Me, I've got better things to do.
BJ
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Re: Simsqu Proved Correct
Actually I am sure we used to freeze them in my last house where I had a large vegetable garden, and as BG has said, from four plants (if you have the space) you will enough courgettes to last all winter. I quite like them and even eat them raw. They are not much work to prepare as the flesh is firm but easy to cut and there is no need to peel them.
But who/what is Simsqu?
Dod
But who/what is Simsqu?
Dod
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Dod101 wrote:
But who/what is Simsqu?
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One of the members here (vide supra), who has, shall we say an aversion to courgettes. His personal profile back on TMF had a hilarious diatribe against them.
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