It was too hot to do much apart from water and eat lunch in the garden today – up to 35 degrees C.
 Cucumber, Longues des Landes peppers, arbequina olives and Catalan fuet |  Grilled courgettes and aubergine |  Goats’ cheese from Mas Rolland with thyme and olive oil |
Some of our Languedocienne tomatoes are showing signs of ripening.
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A swallowtail butterfly
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 |  | It was hard to photograph as it flitted from one lavender flower to another. |
A conversation about a locust
 | Chaiselongue: There’s a locust – I’m going to photograph it and then I want you to kill it. Click, click. Lo Jardinièr: It’s only a small one…. Chaiselongue: And how do you think they get bigger? Lo Jardinièr: By eating our aubergine plants. Chaiselongue: Exactly. Crunch. I’m so glad he can kill them, as I don’t like doing it – they’re very crunchy! |
6 comments:
Yum!
Yum!
Lunch looks delicious, especially the goats cheese!
I didn't appreciate that locusts were so common in Southern Europe, this is the second blog mention in the last few days.
Delicious indeed. Lunch. Not the locust.
My distaste for "bug" reminds me that I still garden like a little girl. And you win on the first tomato harvest. I can't resist eating them.
You photo of the goat cheese with oil and herbs is a masterpiece. You must enlarge it to poster size and frame it! The lattice of sun and shade perfectly captures both the sight and the smell and the taste.
They're rather scarey when they're fully grown and close to you. I've only killed one and it took some doing even with a rock!
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