Rondo di Nizza


One of the perks of working at Ryton is The Staff Table. This is a table (yes...) where all sorts of interesting vegetables which are perhaps slightly too organic for sale, are left for staff to take, gratis. The other day I picked up this, isn't it the cutest courgette? Its name means 'round thing from Nice'. It's about the size as a large apple, and is grown just like other courgettes.

It's a good time of year for perks like this, so with the staff sale on Thursday lunchtimes, where we do pay a fair but reasonable price for our heritage vegetables, I've had some really interesting eats recently. Black peppers, pink striped aubergines, yellow tomatoes and lettuce in multitude. In fact the only things I've had to go to the supermarket for are milk, beer and slightly salted tortilla chips.

More squashes later...