Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues

Nikkster

Yorkie1 wrote: »

They are the same family although different varieties. Marrows need to grow to full size for a harder skin.

My 'marrows' are just oversized courgettes ... very oversized green ones!

That's what I thought - if I was going to draw a marrow (you never know...), I'd draw it as being stripey. And I thought that they had harder skins too.

lostinrates wrote: »

Most people just use over grown courgettes and pretend though, surely? We do I admit!

I think it is indeed what most people do!
Hopefully this time next year I'll have a glut of courgettes. They are my favourite vegetable, so I'll save a small fortune

lostinrates

Nikkster wrote: »

That's what I thought - if I was going to draw a marrow (you never know...), I'd draw it as being stripey. And I thought that they had harder skins too.



I think it is indeed what most people do!
Hopefully this time next year I'll have a glut of courgettes. They are my favourite vegetable, so I'll save a small fortune

I don't know if I have a favourite vegetable. I do love lots of vegetables though. I am always a bit surprised sweet pen is quite so popular tbh. (It is, IMO, much better raw of the cob when its less......sweet). And peas. I mean, they are great, but ....why don't lots of Brits like more vegetably vegetables? (I know, stereotype and unfair...but peas and sweet corn do seem seriously popular in comparison to celeriac, beet root, courgettes, and brassicas)

Tonight here its a real autumn meal, (actually, last night was too...a mushroom bonanza). Tonight its something we have every autumn often. Cubed butternut or kabocha (its hard to get good squash other than butternut now) with garlic, chestnuts ...freeze dried cos so early, and pancetta rashers. Sometimes I chuck on cubes of blue cheese at the last minute, tonight I chucked in some more mushrooms. When we re hungrier we add pasta. When we are not, like tonight, we just have the veg and pancetta. I didn't know when I meal planned it was going to start as autumn but end as summer

lemonjelly

Nikkster wrote: »

A question: are marrow and courgette the plant or just the same family? There was a bit of debate in the office on Friday, when someone was donated a rather over-sized courgette. (michaels would have been proud. There were a lot of raised eyebrows and hilarous comments).

This made me :rotfl:

I believe they're the same. courgettes are basically baby marrows?

Harvested all the tubs of carrots now. Last 2 tubs were the bigger tubs, & had a few corkers from these. Still have the carrots & onions in the ground to eat/harvest.
Have started picking cucumbers. Really pleased with the quality of these this year. They've also grown bigger, longer, thicker than before.
Harvested the biggest beetroot crop I've ever managed earlier today. Over the next 2 days I'll be pickling and roasting.

Tomato crop coming along, & definitely have a decent sized crop, but still none are reddening yet...

Definitely got chilli flowers. However strangely I have noticed a few of the leaves have also been shrivvelling/looking dry. Using the logic of how tomato plants work, I pruned these leaves off, assuming that the plant would try to heal them, & this would divert nutrients away from flowers/plants. Does anyone have any idea whether I've done the right thing?

lemonjelly

Feeling very mortal all of a sudden.
A colleague who I worked closely with has died suddenly.
I had a lot of respect & appreciation for them, & liked much about them.
They hadn't even reached 60. Weren't ill. Had a lot to live for.
Complete shock.
I feel sad for their early passing.

Nikkster

lemonjelly wrote: »

Feeling very mortal all of a sudden.

Sorry to hear that, lj.

lemonjelly

I suppose every now and then something jolts us back to realise there is a relentless passing of time going on.

I feel more sorry for all they'll miss - so much to live for.
Have found it has made me very reflective at the mo.

lemonjelly

My £2 coin jar has coughed, so I thought I'd order and pre-order a few treats (probably to cheer myself up a bit too).
On the way I have Elbow (Build a rocket...), NIN's Hesitation Marks (in a week), a newie from Jamie Catto, and as a special treat, Marvin Gaye's What's Going' On.

I would have pre-ordered the Chvrches album for later this month, & Son of Daves new single (both out 23 Sept) but could find the versions I wanted. I'll pre-order in a couple of weeks as I'm really looking forward to both.
I'm also quite looking forward to the Ultraista album due out 1st week in October.

Nikkster

lemonjelly wrote: »

I suppose every now and then something jolts us back to realise there is a relentless passing of time going on.

I feel more sorry for all they'll miss - so much to live for.
Have found it has made me very reflective at the mo.

A close friend of one of my close friends passed away suddenly a month or so ago. They'd been out for dinner the night before. It was a complete shock, and I'm sorry that I'll never get to meet her. My friend always spoke to highly and warmly of her. The main comfort for my friend was that she had spent what no-one knew was going to be her last weekend socialising and generally having a nice time. Couldn't really ask for a better way to go (although doesn't make it any easier on those left behind).

michaels

I'm going to sound old now (well I am so no point pretending), I know bands have always had silly names but is there a sort of silly name inflation at work, what was silly i the 70s no longer registers on the silly-meter now so instead they have to be really out there now?

All of you lot with your green fingers makes me think of havign a small vegetable patch but in all honesty we struggle to find the time to cut the grass and keep the brambles under control so a veg patch would never happen. I think about half our weekly food bill is on fruit and veg, I can't help thinking there must be a huge mark-up on these and that a well organised internet business could clean up offering slightly more reasonable prices.

neverdespairgirl

lostinrates wrote: »

Blair witch project later had friends in pieces and didn't phase me though.

I've always disliked scary films.

My next sister down, on the other hand, went to the video shop (90s alert!) aged 13 in school uniform, rented Silence of the Lambs, watched all of it, and went to bed and slept well.

silvercar wrote: »

Elders tend to remember and remind when younger is allowed to do something that elder had to wait to do. OH and I and DS1 (obviously DS1) are elders and I think over the years that has meant the DS2 has been allowed stuff that maybe he shouldn't have been allowed just because, in sympathy with being the elder mode, we have not wanted to prevent DS1 from doing. Having nearly 4 years between them excasberates the problem.

With me and my next sister, it was often the other way round - next sister, although absolutely lovely now, went through a very bolshie phase as a late teenager, and because she resisted instead of co-operating, had earlier curfews and so forth than I did.

Yorkie1 wrote: »

Picked about 15 courgettes ... some more marrow than regular size ... somebody please stop me from planting 4 plants next year! Even the neighbours don't want any more :eek:

I adore corgettes - my Dad grows loads, about 3 different types, and they are all yummy. He also grows several different types of squash, but not marrows any more, as they just tended to end up as compost.

lostinrates wrote: »

I don't know if I have a favourite vegetable. I do love lots of vegetables though. I am always a bit surprised sweet pen is quite so popular tbh. (It is, IMO, much better raw of the cob when its less......sweet). And peas. I mean, they are great, but ....why don't lots of Brits like more vegetably vegetables? (I know, stereotype and unfair...but peas and sweet corn do seem seriously popular in comparison to celeriac, beet root, courgettes, and brassicas)

We eat, regularly, from a combination of frozen and fresh, corgettes, sweetcorn, peas, broccoli, cucumber, spinach, red cabbage, peppers, tomatoes, beetroot, aubergine and carrots, because all 3 of us like all of those. We don't bother much with cauliflower (I don't quite see the point of it, myself). OH and Isaac munch lots of olives, and we all like gherkins. We've got all of those in the flat at the moment, apart from aubergine.

Tonight, OH cooked lamb on skewers, saffron-rice, and a salad made of gherkins, sweetcorn, beetroot, spinach and lots of fresh parsley, with olives added for OH and Isaac (I'm not keen on olives).

Fortunately, Isaac eats most vegetables quite happily. He's not keen on cauliflower or brussels or asparagus, but eats a wide enough variety of other veg, enough that I'm not bothered.