Easy vegetarian zucchini pie recipe

It's rather  hot in Melbourne today, and I'm busy, so I made this for later, when I know I'll be needing a rest...

2 medium zucchinis (courgettes) sliced thickly & blanched.
1 onion sliced
2 garlic cloves
roasted capsicum chopped
fresh basil hand torn
fresh Italian parsley chopped
4 free range eggs
good dollop naturally thick cream
good dollop passatta
parmesan cheese grated
freshly ground black pepper
pure sea salt

Gently sweat onions & garlic until soft then place them in bottom of pie dish
put blanched zucchini on top, followed by capsicum, then cover top of pie with torn basil leaves & chopped parsley, season with salt & pepper.
In a bowl, whisk together eggs, cream & passatta - don't worry if it looks runny - it will firm up when baked - pour over pie.
A thick sprinkling of parmesan cheese, and Roberto's your uncle!

I'll serve it cold later, with a green salad...

* you can add any vegetables to this really... eg sliced mushrooms, or roasted eggplant/ pumpkin...

Hope you feel inspired to have a go! If you do, please let me know how you get on without measuring everything!

Bouquet Garni Vegetable Garden

In my unruly spring vegetable garden, space for new plants is scarce.The current residents are still busy self-seeding, and look beautiful. This happens every year, and every year, I vow to aim for nice neat beds and thinner plantings for higher yields, but it never happens, because I prefer a lovely tangle of spilling flowers and lush greenery....

More importantly, the plants, left to their own devices, companion each other without my interference. Where once was juicy borage, is now a lush mop of silky parsley, growing in borage's improved soil, and around strawberries, sweetly-scented chamomile offers filtered cover, hiding succulent, soft fruit from predatory birds... Nasturtiums romp everywhere there is space, and are a decoy for caterpillars on soft, green lettuce and brocolli... Rabbits haven't discovered the tender seedlings hidden within what must feel like a jungle to the furry gourmets... There are so many examples of nature's intelligence here...

So, for now, I am willing to abdicate responsibility, and harvest less produce... I feel quite satisfied... and I suspect so do the ladybirds and butterflies...