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home made pizza base, last year's tomato topping which included peppers, chilli, onions, tomatoes and courgettes..this year's onions, red and green peppers, beefsteak tomatoes and someone elses mushrooms and cheese..still snacking on the discovery apples but they are from the home tree  ;D

Made the 1st 2 batches of tomato sauce today and now in the freezer  :D

Been eating fennel, kohl rabi, carrots, garlic, shallots, cabbages, spinach, courgettes, potatoes, spring onions and beans in various guises all week  ;D

Quote from: small on August 21, 2009, 20:42:31
Hyacinth, could you put the recipe up please? I have something of a glut and there's only so much ratatouille I can eat......

Here it is 8) I had two slices  ;D

Courgette Cake

large handful sultanas
2 medium - large courgettes, grated using course side of box grater
2 large eggs
125ml vegetable oil
150g caster sugar
225g self-raising flour
1/2 teaspoon bicarb
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
2 sandwich tins, greased & lined

filling - good quality lemon curd (I use Duchy Originals) with some lime juice to taste

icing:
200g tub organic cream cheese
100g icing sugar, sieved
juice of 1 lime

Preheat oven to 180 C
Grate courgettes.
Combine eggs, oil and sugar in bowl.
Sieve in flour, bicarb and baking powder and beat until well combined.
Stir in courgette and sultanas.
Pour into tins and bake for 30 minutes until slightly browned and firm to touch.
Once cool, sandwich with lemon curd in middle.
cream cheese icing on top - firm in fridge if preferred.

serves 8 people - or 2 people 4 times over :o)

From Nigella's book:

Thank you.  I'll  try this, it reads a bit like Macro's carrot cake. To die for!

I had fried green tomatoes over the weekend  :D

Tonight its the 1st of the Pink Fir Apple potatoes  ;D  alongside a red cabbage/carrot/fennel salad

First of our sweetocrn yesterday - yum!! Only had the allotment 18months so was first attempt. Shall definitely be doing it again

Also

Courgettes - chargrilled with Chilli, garlic, mint and Feta
Runner Beans with tomatp sauce
Spuds
Beetroot - made into risotto
Raspberries - mrs stick makes a lovely almond and cinnamon torte with these

Just picked and dug- Spuds-leek-runners-peas-cabbage and swede.

and from the herb garden a hand full of sage and rosemary to throw in with the meat ;)

salad including new mixes of red mizuna, pak choy and red mustard for lunch.. the last of last year's squash soup for tea with cheese and onion bread  :)
oh, still munching on the discovery apples, pears have started, windfalls  ;D

 :) shallots,garlic,bay leaf,tomatoes,courgettes,kale,spinach,parsley,aubergine, someone else grew the chickpeas for me ;)/ shades x

stew including last year's tomato sauce, onions, kohl rabi, parsnips, carrots and spuds for tea, mixed salad leaves, radish, ishikura onions as spring onions, cucumber and lots of different coloured tomatoes for lunch with our own eggs.5 a day?  ;D

We had carrots, potatoes and 4 types of beans today and have a sweetcorn for tomorow

Sweetcorn, carrots and spuds with chicken.       ;D ;D ;D

our tomatoes with eggs and bacon for lunch plus mixed lettuce leaves, cucumber, toms etc with home made quiche for tea  ;D

We had guests... so dinner for 11... included
Roast Red Dukes, Runners, Ne Plus peas, salad, carrots, Veg teghine (for the veggie) pumpkin soup, apple pie, bramble crumble...  :)

sweetcorn, tomatoes, and caramellised red onions with a nice bit of well-matured fillet!!

Roasted parsnips and kale made into a soup (with spuds, onions, garlic and stock)

Having aubergines, courgettes, shallots, garlic etc in cous couse alonside a tomato salad tonight

Sparkly - that soup sounds yum!

 ;D Runner beans /Marrows And Toms  growing like mad  ;D

I think I'm going to go and look for another fig or 6...  :)

we had a couple on our young tree this yea ,but i don,t like um  :(