Courgette season. They are such rewarding vegetables: plant one tiny seedling that has barely emerged, and a few weeks later you are up to your ears in gigantic courgettes. I admit there is nothing particularly Biševo-ish about planting them, apart from the fact that ours grow in our garden on Biševo. Still, they are so photogenic in these early stages that I had to make a record. We ate the male flowers, left the female ones alone, and soon harvested a ridiculous abundance. Thank you, Mother Nature, for courgettes… :)
People say courgettes have no flavour, but gentleness and simplicity are flavours too, and they go with absolutely everything.
The flower does not have a loud taste or scent either, which is precisely why it is so good in any recipe. It appears on a whim, turns the dish yellow, adds another source of fibre — toward those thirty different plants a week — and disappears quickly. The courgettes in the garden are the same: they arrive fast and pass just as fast. Enjoy them while they are here.
