No recipe – apologies – garden season has been keeping us so busy that as per usual in the summer; it’s tough to keep up with weekly recipes. Furthermore, when the food is so freshly picked, our usual method of cooking tends toward grilling or steaming and simple dressings of oil, acid, salt and spice (olive, lemon, ume and pepper flakes most usually!)

So rather than try and come up with something more than the beauty and perfection of nature itself, exceptionally, please accept these photos of the bounty which Nature has so kindly provided us up here in hardy zone 2A: