Courgette Pasta

Posting this mainly for my own reference later, but in case anyone else is interested, it's a great way to use up courgettes/zucchini.

To be made while cooking your pasta:

Grate courgette (1 normal-sized one per person, or the equivalent of an overgrown one)
Sauté with garlic and olive oil, just enough to sweat, not brown
Add a dash of chili/chili oil
Sprinkle with powdered veg stock or salt & pepper
Cook down 10 min
Add 1-2 tbsp water from the pasta
A generous squeeze of lemon
Chop a handful of mint and parsley fine, sprinkle in
Simmer for around 12 minutes, until all a mellow green
Toss with pasta
Lots of parmesan

Hey presto scrumptious.

Cabin Pressure Advent: Molokai

Get dressed, you merry gentlemen, let nothing you dismay!
For it is Christmas Christmas Christmas Christmas Christmas Day!

I love pretty much every second of this episode, but my favourite little thing is the extra shot of adrenaline that kicks in on the second ‘Christmas’ in Arthur’s song, as if, in saying it, he realises afresh that it’s Christmas.