I have been terribly lazy, spring is gone and it looks like summer is fading away quite quickly.

In the world of blogs I have been very very absent, and a few months is a long time.

But one thing I’ve done is growing my vegetables, I have had some peas, but finally realized that the spot I chose for them was unsuitable, so next year I’ll plant them somewhere else.

I had strawberries, but they are never as many as I would like.

I still have courgettes, an Italian heirloom variety which is extremely tasty even when it gets to the marrow stage.

My autumn fruiting raspberries have just started turning red, they are huge!!!

And I am keeping my little eyes peeled for the glut of tomatoes that my tiny garden will hopefully produce, I have 3 different varieties: a beefsteak, a “regular” (smallish round, forgot the name) and the all-time-favourite San Marzano, which you won’t find anywhere in he UK.

San Marzano are “the” tomatoes that you find in the real neapolitan pizza, they a specialty of the Campania region and are canned whole (no skin though).  San Marzano are quite special, they look long and sort of rectangular (yes, yes), the flesh is quite dry and the flavour improves tremendously when cooked, they get much sweeter than your regular tomato.

Last year I halved them and dried them in the oven with herbs and they were amazing.

So, you see, in the end I was doing something…