A number of fruits and green vegetables have large percentages of water in them. https://www.livestrong.com/article/350652-percentage-of-water-in-fruits-vegetables/
The aroma, the flavour, the texture, the price, the shelf-life, the nutritional value... I suppose they look ok if you like vegetables that look like little green willies. Exactly this. I think people buy courgettes/zucchini to add variety to the vegetable box, not for any practical purpose. A bit like aubergine/egg plant except that aubergine is at least delicious when thinly sliced and roasted or as salata de vinete
I have never been able to cook a decent pork chop. I consider myself to be reasonably competent in the kitchen but they always come out dry and tough The ex-lady Hammer hardly ever ventured into the kitchen unless passing through to get somewhere else, but she cooked amazing pork chops!
Aubergine/eggplant is what comes back when a zucchini escapes from Hell... The whole squash family is suitable only for feeding to food, i.e. fodder for livestock, and even then I'd be suspicious of the steaks that resulted...
I've always been fairly lucky with my food, I'm by no means a cooking expert but 97% of the time my meals come out as I'd hoped they would and I find my mouth watering from the smell I love pork chops! It's defos one of my fave meals to make What's your fave food to make @Hammer ?
I don't think I've ever bought a zucchini in my life. Every fall they just appear in droves. Good natured friends, relatives and neighbours are all there trying to unload bushels upon bushels of these green monstrosities they've conjured in their back yards over the summer. Some nights you'll get home, or open the door to find a basket of hulk phalluses sitting on the step. The poor bastards resorting to guerilla warfare trying to liberate themselves from their opulent plenty. "I swear to fucking god, Dave," they say to me, "if I eat one more god damned zucchini, I'll probably shoot myself." "Give me one more god damned zucchini," I usually reply, "and you won't have to." Yet time after time, year after year, spring after spring, these poor bastards keep pouring the seeds into the ground like Tic-Tacs down a hookers throat and praying for a good harvest. And I think that perfectly illustrates what a stupid fuck up of a species we turned out to be.
I like cooking simple things (being a bloke I can relate to simple things...) Indian curries and traditional stews are probably my favourite at this time of year, but I do my own take on things like chilli concarne - it has a tomato sauce and beans but never minced meat; usually chopped shoulder of pork or similar with huge chunks of carrot and whole new potatoes cooked slowly 2-3 hours - so that it softens and mellows but with a firey sauce
Yeah my boyfriend is a bit like that. I had flu earlier this year and he made me a jam sandwich, but earlier that day he said he'd make me a delicacy that would heal me. When I asked him about it he said, "I'm only a simple man who makes simple food. Enjoy and get better soon, we can't live of jam sandwiches forever." Ha ha! and he wasn't joking, I had the flu for five days and each day we ate jam sandwiches for lunch and tea...! Surprise to say, I went off jam completely after I'd recovered and got straight back to giving us a different meal each day. Hopefully I won't be sick again or it will be jam sandwiches again
Slice courgette into fat coins and grate almost and entire packet of cheese and bake/with pork chop/jacket potato/pound of butter/and onion gravy and pepper/half-pint of salt. Eat the remains of your wife's chop, lie on the carpet. Pizza tonight, blue cheese and chorizo
Had never heard of this but luckily my friend Dr Google has... Sounds good. I had never heard of tomatilloes even, but it seems that I can get them as a sauce in my local supermarket which will elevate a humble chilli to dinner party food!
Slice courgette into bin... (FTFY) Disguising it with a kilo of cheese, butter, pork chops, and potatoes is a start, but why let the revolting things into the kitchen in the first place. Be firm. As firm as a healthy young courgette on viagra
I stayed at my dear-old-mum's house this time last year because she thought her time was up (as did I, as did the doctor...); I didn't make any jam sandwiches but I managed to pull her through with soups and casseroles, and she is still going strong. One of her little treats, howerver, is a bit of jam on a brioche roll, she does still eat it but is very wary after I made the mistake in the photo below... Top tip, don't put the chopped chilli next to the jam in a blind woman's fridge
'Where's my phone! I must photograph the inside of the fridge.' 'Lie down a while baby, I'll fetch your jam, you'll like that.' 'And my spoon, my spoon...Mummy!' x
My mum disguises it in cake, which I quite like. It's somewhat like carrot cake, though to be honest I prefer carrot cake better. Its surprising how many things can be hidden in various types of confections and it seems like an ethical way to dispose of excess vegetables without having to worry about all those pesky health benefits.
