Long green things

[desperance]

So I was standing there at the chopping-board slicing up a courgette, as a man very well might who was planning on making a courgette-and-manchego tortilla for his lunch; and Mac was getting excited, stretching up and trying to claw himself a piece (I swear he's grown, since he arrived; he didn't use to be able to hook a paw over the edge of the chopping-board, I'm sure), and we had this whole conversation about how courgette is not cucumber, and I know he likes cucumber but a courgette is not the same thing at all, for all that they may look alike to an eager little cat, and didn't he have a nose, couldn't he smell the difference...?

And like that; and then of course a piece fell on the floor because that just always happens, and -

Yup, you know what I'm going to say. You have always known it.

Nom-nom-nom.

Add courgette to the list of Mac's Favourite Veggies. Actually, you can add zucchini too, that may be cheating but it'll give us something beginning with z, which is always a thrill.

Comments

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Yup. Both my boys are mad for bread. And cakes, and crumpets, and croissants. Any kind of baked goods. I had to buy a new bread-bin with a tight-fitting lid, and I'm fairly sure one of 'em will crack that before long.

[fidelioscabinet.livejournal.com]

I was told this is from early exposure to the grain content in dry cat foods. I do not know if that's true or not.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Really? Isn't that interesting... Certainly the girls were much less keen on bready stuff (tho' partial to toast, esp when spread with butter and Gentleman's Relish); I know nothing about their early diet, they were about three when they came to me, and too much dry stuff tended to upset Sophie's stomach. The boys, on the other hand, I've had since they were a year old or thereabouts (Mac is still only about eighteen months - oops, maybe twenty by now: where does the time go?), and they've been inhaling kibble ever since. Again I don't know what they had before, but there was none of that nonsense of a gradual introduction; their only grumble is that I never give 'em enough...