Chutney Blog

Take plums, not too ripe:

A big bendy squash (this one’s a Tromba di Albenga):

Small onions, stunted by the shade of a cherry tree:

A selection of spices (looking disproportionately large) and some muslin or cheesecloth:

Now, chop up the fruit and vegetables, put all the ingredients into a pan and — chutney!
This excursion into the world of [...]

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Romanian Courgettes

I notice that C&F is now available in Romanian thanks to Google:

I was struggling enough with Italian, wondering whether to call the Tromba di Albengas ‘Trombi di Albenga’.

Here they are before harvesting – I think the lighter-coloured spots are frost damage:

A further question is what to do with them next, since they look like a [...]

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Tromba di Albenga/10,000 Hits

Looking for a photo of the Tromba di Albenga squash on Google, I was surprised to see C&F come top in the search results. Closer inspection revealed this was because I had misspelt it as ‘Tromba di Albegna’. Anyway, I now have a photograph of my own curly Italian squash:

There are more photos of more [...]

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Courgettes (and Squash) 2008

A month ago I planted various courgette and squash seeds into modules (in the waxing gibbous moon, supposedly good for plants with internal seed-bearing fruits). On Wednesday they looked like this:

(Defender, Tondo di Piacenza, Jemmer (yellow) and Black Beauty courgettes – the latter a new variety for us.)
And this:

(Five butternut squash and three Tromba di [...]

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