Keep it in the Family
A one stop shop at the Collins supermarket!….
One of my favourite lunches has to be a simple omelette and salad. It’s light, easily digested, healthy and quick to make. Now there are countless variations out there and I’m sure you all have your own favourites but I don’t. I put near enough anything in mine, whatever I can get my hands on in fact and that bode well for yesterday’s lunch courtesy of my family…
My brother had kindly donated a fine specimen of a courgette earlier in the week, grown in his very own kitchen garden. No way was I going to waste this as a freebie from my brother should be treated at once with both joy and suspicion 
My mother, the good Mrs C. also gave me a bag of fine looking cherry tomatoes, once again home grown in her own vegetable corner of her garden and you don’t need telling how well courgettes and tomatoes go together.
I supplied the heat, a freshly picked home grown chilli from my greenhouse along with a snippet of fresh savory went into the pan along with a home grown shallot or three. A pinch of salt donated by the Maldon Sea Salt Company of England and a turn of not so freshly picked Indian peppercorns went into a bowl of free range golden eggs and all was added to my pan of goodness thanks to my green fingered family.
Thanks folks!….
Zucchini Frittata
Miles,
I didn’t even have the strength to make a frittata tonight due to heavy bouts of cement mixing…. if this is what being a man is all about then I’m off back to the kitchen sink, or I would if I had one
One more vat of cement and I reckon I’d turn into one of those Chinese ceramic warriors minus the good looks…. so it is with some relish I gaze upon the Collins homegrown frittata and make a mental note to cook one up on my 1950’s electric single ring, outdoor hob sensation. I’m expecting a Wolf any day now I might add 
Cid
August 31, 2009 @ 8:39 pm
Cid,
Sounds like hard work
A woman’s work is never done!!! Good luck with that, don’t call me etc…!
Miles
August 31, 2009 @ 9:28 pm
Miles,
pleased the package arrived safely - new recipes for courgettes are always welcome here
I’m on them daily
I hope it didn’t give you stomach ache or that you choked on it
I’ve got onions, borlotti beans, swede, turnip, carrots, kale, brocolli, yellow beans, french beans, shallots, spring onions, leeks, beetroot, tomatoes, sprouts, sweetcorn, chard and aubergine all there or on the way - is there a meal in that
Best
Rod
August 31, 2009 @ 10:28 pm
Rod,
Not much you can do with that I’m afraid. Best to just bag it up and send it over
Miles
September 1, 2009 @ 8:16 am
I made a mixed squash frittata the other night, just to unload some of the various summer squash I had and it was delicious. I made it in a skillet and added some cornmeal to the mix — I love this kind of thing.
What is a hob? GDave mentioned it in his last post and I see Cid hob-talking as well.
Also, what are those little mahogany-colored things that look like rice?
Gosh, this looks so good and it’s dinner time over here!
Melissa
September 2, 2009 @ 12:04 am
Melissa,
That sounds nice, healthy and delicious! A ‘hob’ is the ‘top’ of the stove which you stick your pans on when cooking, be it gas or electric.
The mahogany thingys are pommegranate seeds for a little crunch.
Miles
September 2, 2009 @ 8:11 am