Garden vegetables are growing plump and ripe now, and the zucchini are in abundance!

I chopped up three the other night and put bags of it in the freezer to save for spiced zucchini bread on winter nights ... along with a glass of buttered rum perhaps! Oh yes, I'll give you the recipe for that in a few months when you're starting to shiver with the onset of winter storms.

But for now... a glass of iced elderblossom syrup accompanies this just perfectly on a hot summer day. (and that's kirsch icing you see there! - no scrimping!)