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Moonraker · 03-08-2011, 04:24 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening

On 03/08/2011 14:49, chris French wrote:
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Martin Brown wrote:
Chutney or soup - by the sounds of it both. There is a limit to how much
Ratatouille you can consume in one season and stay sane.

Actually, there's not that much of a limit on how much
butter-fried-courgette I can eat, I am happy to eat it all meals.
Unfortunately Nick and Daniel aren't so keen.

Me and Helen like them fried in a ridge griddle pan.

However - gardening club show is coming up, and I do need to try making
chutney this year, I think. Possibly left it a bit late, less than 3
weeks
to go now. But I may still give it a try. Anyone got a useful recipe?
(I'm unlikely to even consider eating the vile stuff!)

We've have one, I'll look it up later.

Fresh small ones are great stir fried with a half a chilli - and
spaghetti somewhat more interesting that way. After a while you start
dreaming of recipes that use courgettes but taste of something else!

I like my courgettes to taste of courgette. I made courgette fried rice
(with rice from the chinese takeaway cos Nick didn't want to cook!!) last
night, and have the leftovers for lunch.

I've made courgette cake before now - a bit odd with green ones, but I
have
yellows as well this year, so it may look less scary. But I always found
they tasted a bit odd.

There is a recipe in the kitchen Garden mag latest issue for Courgette,
carrot and chocolate cake I think i'll try.

We went away for 3 weeks in July (which is usual, we tend not to have
long holidays in the summer). Boy did the weeds (which looked all under
control when we left) have a good time
I have the same problem, also with runner beans. Both seem to grow so
fast I wonder if it ones I missed the last time!

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