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Courgette, the star summer veggie
It has been a while now that seasons in the kitchen have been altered dramatically. Only a few decades ago some vegetables were either strictly winter vegetables or fresh spring delights, or reserved only for summer tables. Root vegetables and cabbages ruled the winter months, artichokes and fresh fava beans were short lived spring miracles. Those were the days when tomatoes did not go ripe enough before July, eggplants ditto, and summer meant abundance of cucurbits of all sorts, especially cucumbers, squashes, courgettes. I remember, when I was a child, I liked the cucumber-yoghurt soup-salad cacık so much that they used to trick me making a mock one with lettuce, saying that it was a winter cacık, cucumbers simply were not available. Fresh tomato in winter was unheard of, only tomato paste was to be used.
July 25 2021
