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Growing marrow Flower of marrow. A marrow is the mature fruit of certain Cucurbita pepo cultivars used as a vegetable. The immature fruit of the same or similar cultivars is called courgette (in Britain, Iran, Ireland, France, the Netherlands, Singapore, Malaysia and New Zealand) or zucchini (in North America, Japan, Australia, the Czech Republic, Italy, Germany and Austria). [1]
The zucchini (/ z u ˈ k iː n i / ⓘ; pl.: zucchini or zucchinis), [1] courgette (/ k ʊər ˈ ʒ ɛ t /) or baby marrow (Cucurbita pepo) [2] is a summer squash, a vining herbaceous plant whose fruit are harvested when their immature seeds and epicarp (rind) are still soft and edible.
My Life as a Courgette (French: Ma vie de Courgette; also titled My Life as a Zucchini in North America and Australia) is a 2016 stop-motion animated comedy-drama film directed by Claude Barras, [4] and co-written by Céline Sciamma.
Ratatouille (/ ˌ r æ t ə ˈ t uː i / RAT-ə-TOO-ee, French: ⓘ; Occitan: ratatolha [ʀataˈtuʎɔ] ⓘ) is a French Provençal dish of stewed vegetables that originated in Nice and is sometimes referred to as ratatouille niçoise (French:). [1]
Boxty, in a contemporary presentation served wrapped around beef and with courgettes and sauce. Boxty can be made several ways. When baked in a pan it is sometimes called "boxty bread". Potatoes are grated over cheesecloth and excess water is allowed to drain. It takes around half an hour for the starch to separate and sink to the bottom of the ...
Mfaraket koussa (spicy zucchini stew) is one of the easiest and simplest ways to make use of the abundant summer zucchini. [71] Daoud bacha is a meat-based stew, and consists of beef meatballs (also lamb) with cinnamon, parsley, and stuffed with pinenuts in a tomato sauce. [72]
The year 1955 saw the first use of the shortened, slang term "veggie". [ 4 ] As an adjective , the word vegetable is used in scientific and technical contexts with a different and much broader meaning, namely of "related to plants" in general, edible or not—as in vegetable matter , vegetable kingdom , vegetable origin , etc. [ 2 ]
(slang) a way of thanking someone, or congratulating them. nicker (colloquial) 1 pound, maintains singular form when used in a plural context ("it cost me 2 nicker"), rarely used in the singular niff an unpleasant smell Nissen hut hemicylindrical building of corrugated metal. Named for the designer. (US: Quonset hut, named for the place of US ...