Who knew?  It tastes just like zucchini except it has seeds and these can be removed so then you just have a GIANT zucchini with a concave middle. Sweet.

We returned from our camping trip to find two giant marrow chilling in the vege patch.

What to do, what to do?  I have never cooked a marrow, or even investigated what to do with them.  The time for marrow was upon us.

So, I cut it in half length-ways and scooped out the seeds, leaving lots of marrowy goodness.  Then I emptied a drained can of chickpeas, a drained can of whole kernel corn, diced capsicum from the garden and a tonne of cherry toms from the garden into a pan with some EVOO and sauteed til goldenish.

Then I stirred in some feta, olives and jalapenos seasoned with ground pepper and rock salt and baked em.

This was sooooo good, I can’t wait to try it out on the next big boy!

BUT, I made a shitload of stuffing.

What to do, what to do?

The next night, I made fritters with the stuffing mix.  I added some flour, egg and milk and I was off.

Let me tell you, chickpea, corn, capsicum, tomato, feta, olive and jalapeno fritters are just about the best things ever.  Ethan can vouch for this I swear.

So, we have learnt from this exercise that 2 cans of vege plus some fresh can feed you many times over and that I MUST use leftovers.  It’s a compulsion of mine.  Enjoy!

Today marks the first day of Autumn.  We have harvested an awesome crop from the vege garden this season and now have more  tomatoes than we can eat!  Dave has just whipped up his usual batch of late summer hot sauce with our tomatoes plus our  habaneros and red chillies.  AND IT IS HOT!  Mouth is burning but I must eat more of it’s spicy freshness.

With Ethan on Board!

Ok, now he really is getting far too big.  He has wanted to catch the bus home ever since he started school in November.  It’s not really necessary as his school is a 2 min drive from our house and it works in with my drive home from work,  but today we thought it would be fun to give it a go.

We met the driver who all the kids adore, told him where we lived (well I did, Ethan was already deep in the bus deciding who would have the pleasure of sitting next to him!) and he was off.  And I was off, racing up the road to make sure I would be standing by the gate ready to flag the bus down when it came up the road.

He was so proud of himself!  Of course he wants to catch the bus every day now so we have a new bargaining chip, I always need more of those up my sleeve that’s for sure.

My day was going great, I was super productive, had a great lecture, crossed heaps of things off my To Do list, had an awesome meeting with Ethan’s teacher, cooked a fab dinner, finished the GST……and then it turned to shit. Strangely I received a visual confirmation of just how shit it was in the form of the FIRST ever roach in this house (we have lived here since May). That’s a sign people. A sign that your awesome cooking post is just going to have to wait because after you finish your triple strength cocktail you are going to bed with some soduko on the DS because that’s about all you can manage. [insert every cuss word here]. And if this post is all garbled and looks like ass it’s because I sent it from my phone WHICH IS NOT AN IPHONE! [insert every cuss word here]. Humph.

It should be compulsory for everyone to wake up to these smells at least once a week, thanks Dave xxxx

Cinnamon Date Scones & Pancakes

He’s had a real ‘beaut’ couple of days. Yesterday he was cutting some hose, was using a new blade and sliced his thumb open. It looked like he had gutted a really small fish. So he spent the afternoon at the ER and went back to finish the job today. Things were going well, he was putting back the hatch on the thing he was fixing (some anti syphon exhaust thing) when the hatch blew shut and locked Dave the Engineer in a space the size of the cupboard under a sink. Are you picturing this? So he pulled off an air vent and proceeded to call for help. I’m crying just writing this I swear. He had no cell phone and was working by himself. Luckily there were some guys working all the way across the marina who heard his scared little cries. And he was rescued. Get better work stories? I don’t think so.