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  • lemonjelly
    lemonjelly Posts: 8,014 Forumite
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    LJ, courgettes can ven be eaten as babies. The babies make delish crudite. Or even, if you really have a gut, stuff the flowers. Ultimate for me are the young ones with flowers till attached, stuffed....oh the delightful wastefulness.

    However, I also love marrows, and stuffed marrow is an inexpensive and delightful meal. I usually stuff mine with a little lamb mince, some chopped apricots/dried fruit, perhaps some ras al hanout if not herbs/spices to mood and rice. It also works with a ragu type stuffing, but I prefer a drier stuff, with no tomato.

    Sounds quite delish!
    Cut & pasted to lemonjelly's recipe board thingy...
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  • lemonjelly
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    treliac wrote: »
    Marrows are lovely stuffed with pre-cooked and seasoned quorn mince too. Microwave in a microwave bag till marrow cooks. Grate some cheese over the top, pop under the grill to melt the cheese....... mmmmm, yummy. :)

    Sounds very nice!

    I'm not a vegetablist, however I am very partial to quorn mince. So easy to do so much with. Makes fantastic shepherds/cottage pies!
    MMMMMMMM!:D
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  • lostinrates
    lostinrates Posts: 55,283 Forumite
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    lemonjelly wrote: »
    Sounds quite delish!
    Cut & pasted to lemonjelly's recipe board thingy...


    Not everyone likes the actual marrow. Its undeniably ''vegetble-y''. little tasteless alone. I don't et the rind on a marrow, I find it too woody, DH eats the whole thing: very high fibre.
  • lemonjelly
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    wageslave wrote: »
    I have never eaten marrows, I have a very vague idea what they look like.

    When I bought this house, I inherited a vegetable garden which really excited me at the time. I spent hours weeding and watering and was really chuffed with my huge crop of tatties and other bog standard sruff.

    Most of it ended up in the bin. There was a limit to how much we could eat/freeze and I couldn't even give what was left away.

    That bit of the garden is now all shrubs and trees.

    How much are the rest of you growing and what do you do with the surplus?

    wageslave, I eat it!:D

    Any surplus, I happily give away to good homes where I know it'll be appreciated.:) Some recipients seem to be suprised at the abundance of flavour in home grown food. I think they expect it to be worse than shop bought stuff for some reason.

    I think I've planted too much this year. I probably got carried away after the successes I had last year. I also wanted to do a better job (eg with the cucumbers & sprouts which had smallish crops). So have planted more. I think I need to give a couple of plants away.

    Too many plants are now outgrowing the greenhouse. Hence I need to plant out the courgettes (& probably very soon the cucumbers).
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  • lemonjelly
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    Dang! Keep reading stuff what others post & forget why I came here originally.

    In sorting out some of my plants this evening after work, I noticed that 2 of my tomato plants have a flower on.

    Yay!:j
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  • lostinrates
    lostinrates Posts: 55,283 Forumite
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    Chaos_A.D. wrote: »
    Well I'm a nice person, so I guess this is as good a place as any to say hello.;)


    Hello, welcome. :)
  • lemonjelly
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    Chaos_A.D. wrote: »
    Well I'm a nice person, so I guess this is as good a place as any to say hello.;)

    Greetings friend.

    A pleasure to have a newbie to join us...
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  • fc123
    fc123 Posts: 6,573 Forumite
    edited 10 June 2010 at 8:17PM
    All this talk of marrows makes me quite nostaligic..I had no idea marrows were huge courgettes.:o What a city girl *roly eyes smilie*

    My old Grandpa, who grew everything, seemed to end up with loads of marrows. Unfortunately, just before he went into care for his final 4 years, he had to give up his allotment and, apparently it was chocka with them.

    My mother used to visit him and then pass them around. I remember making a stuffing with lots of breadcrumbs, herbs, bit of mince and lot's of chopped mushrooms. Had to be very dry as the marrow is very wet so the juice would seep into the stuffing.
    Yes, we always ate the skin too...but it had been roasted for 2 hours or so in foil.

    He died a few years back and I have just realised I haven't cooked a marrow since. I don't think I could buy one anywhere if I wanted to.

    I am a bit absent on the gardening theme as, in rental in a huge overgrown cliff top garden......was a bit hard to get anything going amongst a cliff top weed flower thingy and masses of fennel.

    I cleared patches for herbs and will be leaving behind a very strong thyme, patches of chives, parsley and oregano....and rocket but it's hard to differentiate it from one of the weeds.

    I move home to a mess of a garden. All my rare plants (given to me by my Dorset friend) were 'killed' by the tenants through neglect....the only herb surviving is Sage and Rosemary.
    When the tenants left 2 huge blue hydrangeas just vanished with them??? One from the front, one from the back.

    How odd is that? No hole where they were...nothing..and they were massive.

    The cherry tree has grown enormous so I will get someone in...and yes, loads of cherries but the birds get them all just before they are ripe enough to pick.
  • fc123
    fc123 Posts: 6,573 Forumite
    Chaos_A.D. wrote: »
    Well I'm a nice person, so I guess this is as good a place as any to say hello.;)
    Absolutely :D
  • lostinrates
    lostinrates Posts: 55,283 Forumite
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    fc123 wrote: »
    The cherry tree has grown enormous so I will get someone in...and yes, loads of cherries but the birds get them all just before they are ripe enough to pick.

    Quick, quick...you are probably in time, are they still on the tree...get who ever is in the house to hang unwanted cds from the branches, on lengths of string. The birds thing the are the HUGE eyes of bird bigger than them then you get all the cherries!

    We have lots of cherries here, and I know I'll want cherries at the new place too. I'm trying to choose varieties for an order that will be me as a house warming gift from an older friend.
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