THE GLUT. How to use our produce

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I have lots of chard and lots of overwintered and large onions which I am steadily using. I made this recipe and it was just gorgeous. I needed to make some headway with the chard and got through a fair bit with this

in a casserole and a layer of each

chunks of onions
lots of chopped chard stems and leaves
slices of any size freshly dug potato (lady christi in my case)

200 ml veg stock
150 ml cream
pepper
topped with some grated cheese (gryere is what I used)

into oven for 1 1/2-2 hours at about 170

It was truly lovely. I made it in 2 x 2.3l casseroles and will re-heat one tomorrow

I firrkled on hands and knees early today to get the potatoes and set the timer and went out for the whole morning,coming back to a lovely mouthwatering smell

We are going to be having gluts so it would be lovely to see some good and very easy ways of using our produce

Now what can I make from lots of sugar snap peas?

cabbages?

lettuces?

kale?

Jake'sGran

I'm hungry now!
What does that verb mean "firrkled". Not come across it before.

Not very familiar with(i.e growing) sugar snap peas but I like them. Just trying to think what goes with them and then all I came up with was baking them. I would slice them and layer them with slices of tomato and maybe a sprinkling of strong cheddar. Maybe you could put a fine layer of potato in too. You wouldn't need much liquid (stock or water) and cook slowly on a lowish setting e.g. 350.

The other week I did something like this with pasta sheets and spinach, tomato sauce, cheese, and then a good white sauce (easy in the microwave). Just a vegetarian lasagne really.

LucyLocket

In the West Mids we say furtle instead, it means to rummage about :-)

Thx for the recipes both of you. They sound really nice.

lostinrates

I love the sound of your chard/onion dish. Sugar snap peas wouldn't last long here, between crudite and salads. Cabbage...we love...I think we're the only people in the world who love the cabbage soup from the cabbage soup diet, but summer cabbage salads are delish too.

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furrkle is a new word to me but sounds better than fumble. lol. I just had a little root around under the potato foliage. I would recommend that chard dish anytime, my first time of making it and dh couldn`t get enough. We both scraped our plates and dh scraped the casserole dish too

angelavdavis

Hi all,

I produced a courgette cookbook last year for our allotment site. You can download a pdf version here.

I also picked up a lovely book called The allotment cookbook through the year which contains some great recipes for gluts.

[Deleted User]

LOVELY corgette recipes, thank you very much

angelavdavis

Thanks Kittie, I am still tweaking the chocolate courgette cake recipe - it was a bit heavy the first few times I made it so its still a work in progress.

Just came across a very topical article about someone who has been furtling among the spuds.....

purplepardalis

For cabbage lovers of any variety - shred and make coleslaw. Carrot and onion needed also, and if you can do home made mayonnaise it's even better

Patchwork_Quilt

Make dolmades with cabbage leaves instead of fig leaves.