Eggplant overload

I was right, I'm a bit overloaded with eggplant. My neighbours and friends are the benefactors which is cool, and part of why I grow veggies. It's also the nature of growing in the backyard patch, a feast and famine thing. I might try to pickle some if I get the time.



Monsters in the patch

Every now and then I'll miss one of the zucchinis and they turn into monsters like this one. It seems such a waste to chuck these out but with the pithy centres they make pretty ordinary eating. There are some recipes where you dig out the pithy seeds and stuff them with savory mince or sausage meat. Maybe I'll try it with this one. That's a 400g tin of tomatoes next to it to give the scale of the thing. I might let one of them go at the end of the season to see how big it will get.