We are at that busy end of the year. I realised the other day I hadn't been taken a good stroll around the food garden for three whole days. I'd been out there (in the rain) to harvest some peas, beans, purple carrots, cherry tomatoes and radishes, but what I'd failed to do was look at the zucchini. Admittedly we'd been eating a fair bit of zucchini recently, so I wasn't really craving any more. In fact my neighbour was making tempura prawns for dinner the other day so I sent her home with a bunch of zucchini flowers to batter! Anything to slow the zucchini tide.
But in those three days I didn't make it out there... a monster grew. It was like something from Little Shop of Horrors! Hiding under a leaf was a giant zucchini. I swear it wasn't there the other day. You really have to keep an eye on these things!
Part of me wanted to leave it on there and see just how big it could get. But giant vegetables kind of give me the creeps. Surprisingly it was still tender and tasty all the way through and the seeds hadn't developed yet. In future I think I will stick to picking the flowers with the baby zucchini attached and eating them when they're little.
