Courgettes

[Anna]

Beef - today's Times - Giles Coren, so-called food writer, has "juicy roast chicken with imam bayildi", i.e. as a vegetable, at somewhere called the Greenberry Café in Primrose Hill....

0MG, you also buy it

[Richard Tarleton]

0MG, you also buy it

Er....? As well as what, or who?

I used to read The Guardian until last week but gave it up after Polly Toynbee's stupid article about the new press charter, I'm feeling very angry and depressed about the whole thing....Also I've never understood Doonesbury

I used to take the Observer but it went downhill after Donald Trelford, I've been a devoted Sunday Times reader for some years as it has the best writers and the best review section by a country mile...

[amateur51]

Er....? As well as what, or who?

I used to read The Guardian until last week but gave it up after Polly Toynbee's stupid article about the new press charter, I'm feeling very angry and depressed about the whole thing....Also I've never understood Doonesbury

Similarly, I have never understood Doonesbury. When the Guardian altered its format to berliner, they 'lost' Dooonesbury for an edition or two, to my delight, but there was a sudden eruption of anger (and angst) from Doonesbury-philes and it was restored.

One of the few points of principle in my life is never paying for anything involving Rupert Murdoch, his family and their organisations, not matter how good the review section is.

[Barbirollians]

Imam Bayeldi is an aubergine dish not a courgette one . Very nice too but rather rich and oily .

Apparently named after an imam who over indulged in it!

[Richard Tarleton]

Imam Bayeldi is an aubergine dish not a courgette one .

Yes, this arose from a digression from the thread at #21,#22 and #32....

[Barbirollians]

So I see - was rather bemused as to its courgette relevance ! Still cannot find that soup recipe .

[Flosshilde]

Similarly, I have never understood Doonesbury.

What is there not to understand? Some references to the arcania of USA politics might go above my head, but enough information/knowledge can be gleaned from news reports to understand the underlying despair. And the stories about Ray & BD & the aftermath of their war experiences were truly moving. A pity we don't have a similar strip here - 'If...' just isn't a patch on it.

& now, back to courgettes. Has anyone mentioned stuffing flowers?

[MrGongGong]

Has anyone mentioned stuffing flowers?

I think Cardinal O'Brien might have done in a "homily"

[amateur51]

I think Cardinal O'Brien might have done in a "homily"

I've only been to Raymond Blanc's Le manoir once many years ago and the lunch price included a tour of the organic grden. There were polytunnels containing courgettes and another containing aubergines, both tuneels providing flowers, not veg, for the restaurant.

The yellow courgette flower is served stuffed and the amazingly blue aubergine flower is used as a table decoration. Other tunnels are used to grow the courgettes/aubergines as veg.

[arancie33]

Similarly, I have never understood Doonesbury.

Back OT again, and I know flosshilde has already attempted to put you straight, but so much of Doonesbury has great relevance to our own political and social shortcomings that you really ought to give it another go. Use this to help.

http://doonesbury.slate.com/strip

[mercia]

Courgette , coriander and brie soup - sounds odd but it works but i cannot find the recipe .

http://allrecipes.co.uk/recipe/17197/courgette-and-brie-soup.aspx

??

[amateur51]

Back OT again, and I know flosshilde has already attempted to put you straight, but so much of Doonesbury has great relevance to our own political and social shortcomings that you really ought to give it another go. Use this to help.
http://doonesbury.slate.com/strip

That has helped, thanks arancie

[arancie33]

That has helped, thanks arancie

My pleasure, and welcome to the club