You can really taste the freshness and full flavor of garden veggies when you eat them raw or lightly cooked. Then there's that satisfying crunch of crispness on the tip of your teeth when you bite in. I've never had a veggie garden and try not to get into the habit of buying much from farmer's markets, which I feel tend to be a bit pricey especially when compared to Stanley's by my house. But yesterday–– and I realize this will sound ghetto, because it is!–– we had picked up a few zucchini that had fallen off the vine from that random garden right across the street.
The Fella had prepped the zucchini for cooking – sliced into 1/4" rounds, a light sprinkling of lemon pepper and kosher salt, and tossed with extra virgin olive oil and fresh lemon-thyme from our herb buckets. It was all sitting prettily in a large saute pan on the stove, ready for us to cook up when we got back from walking the dog. Being as famished as I was, I snuck a few slices from the pan to tide me over, not expecting much from a raw veggie. *Epiphany!*
The zucchini was bursting with the flavor of late summer, a bright "green" taste that was perfectly complemented by the lemon-thyme. It was sweet and crunchy. In fact, when The Fella finally sauteed it, I found myself still preferring the raw version.
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