1st full year with my allotment, I grew a load of courgettes as I read they were easy to grow and smothered weeds, I always knew I'd probably have more than I could eat. I am having a bumper harvest!! any ideas of recipes? can I make soup out of them??
There is a thread running on the recipes board - scroll down to June 17th.
http://www.allotments4all.co.uk/joomla/smf/index.php/board,5.0.html
Tricia
Thanks so much for pointing the thread out
we make a lot of courgette soup, and also courgette cake
there's a book on Amazon - 100 things to do with a courgette, or similar. Some of them will be food related.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/What-Will-All-Those-Courgettes/dp/0952488159/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1277847494&sr=1-1 (http://www.amazon.co.uk/What-Will-All-Those-Courgettes/dp/0952488159/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1277847494&sr=1-1)
150 odd things actually. I mean, about 150 things ;D
I'm so jealous that you have a glut already. I picked my second this evening!
Quote from: artichoke on June 29, 2010, 23:20:55
I'm so jealous that you have a glut already. I picked my second this evening!
I cant stand courgettes. I live in fear of ever getting a glut of them................
Oh they are so versatile!
Very young: steam them whole, or slice them thinly into salads
Young: pan fry with onion and garlic, steam them, use them in mixed veg, make vegetable couscous and curries
Older: grate and make chocolate courgette cake (look in grecipe thread for that one!) or savoury muffins, stuff them with sausage meat and onions and herbs and cheese and cook in oven on a layer of (home grown) tomatoes, make them into delicious summer soup (brown some onions and then add courgette, potato, a little celery if you like it, a carrot or two and plenty of stock. cook. puree adding a little cream. add some chopped herbs like parsley, chervil, chives and serve.), or ratatouille.
If you freeze them you can add them to winter soups later in the year.
this looks good
http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/2991/courgette-salad
try googling cougette recipes and see what comes up
Courgette Surprise:
Fill an empty carrier bag with surplus courgettes.
Place on neighbour's doorstep.
Ring doorbell.
Run away.
From a safe distance observe their expression opf surprise at getting another bag of ****ing courgettes....
chrisc
love it chrisc x
We have a homeless people's soup kitchen near us - do you have anything similar? How about old people's homes? They are my target for any surplusses if I'm that lucky (It's my first year too)
Good luck.
Or what about (and this won't be everyone's cup of tea, I know) charities which deal with asylum seekers? I've forgotten the name, but we donated some spare food to such a charity in Leeds after an appeal on Freecycle.
However, I'm not one to talk as we started our courgettes late and they are still getting their first flowers! We will be looking up more ways of freezing them cooked, but carrot and courgette cake will be near the top of the list!
Sue