Huge vegetable glut!

RAS

Hi

I turned 4 cucumbers into 4 smallish jars of bread and butter pickles last week http://www.recipegirl.com/2011/07/20/bread-and-butter-pickles/ although the recipe I used had more tumeric and had dill seed rather than celary seed.

Kosher salt refers to the fact that you need cooking salt not table salt as table salt has additivies that make it free-running and also affect pickles (make them dark).

Know how you feel about the gluts though - have another 4 cucs waiting and 3 more in the wings.

Spudsey

Last night I made a pastie out of the leftover curry from night before, fried up some leftover potatoes and served with fried cabbage with black pepper. YUM!
Followed by a reduced to 5p iced bun from Waitrose.
Tonight planning on batch cooking the curry.

RAS

Hope the4 batch cooking allows you a bit of space for time out in the next couple of weeks.

paulineb_2

Courgette pasta, courgette soup, courgette risotto, I cook with courgettes a lot. You can add it to curries as well. Ive also cooked with cucumber, a few curries have cucumber as an ingredient, you can also pickle cucumber as well.

Courgette bread, cake as someone else suggested, I also use it for enchiladas and fajitas

Or fritters, sure https://www.agirlcalledjack.com has more than a few courgette recipes

paulineb_2

https://www.supercook.com might also be of use

MrsAtobe

There's a thread on the gardening board that has a lot of recipes for courgettes on it
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4712571

jackyann

You can salt beans in Kilner jars - just wash & slice then pack with layers of salt. When you want to eat the, you soak them to rinse the salt out, then cook for a little less than usual. Google for more details.
I recently made a "lasagne" style vege bake; sliced the courgettes lengthways and grilled them with a little oil. They replaced the pasta layers and it was very good.

charlies-aunt

I feel your pain - we have harvested about 120 courgettes this year and despite giving lots away and eating them every flippin' night in some way shape or form . . . there is still a heap of them waiting to be dealt with on the kitchen counter!

Our large chest freezer is filling rapidly with other home grown fruit and veg - which is lovely and very money saving as I haven't bought potatoes, veg or salad stuff for weeks but the nightly picking and prepping is a huge time vacuum as we both work full time.

Honesty box is a great idea - but if you are on benefits - beware of someone dobbing you in for running a small business :mad: our next door neighbour is an nice OAP and the other year, he had a glut of big and beautiful cabbages. He gave away as many as he could and he put the rest in a box outside his garden gate with a little sign "10p each" (not to be greedy, just to cover the cost of next years seed)

He was reported to Benefits and had all his money stopped whilst he was investigated. I appreciate that there are rules and regulations but it was a bit of OTT officialdom over a few cabbages IMO.

Charities such as Rabbit Rescue will often be pleased to take your surplus veggies to feed the bunnies

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Where I go to knitting club one of the ladies there has a big allotment and brings bits in to share with the rest of us.I like to make her a cake in exchange for her kindness.I have lots of delicous looking rhubarb in my freezer for the winter time that she was giving away a few weeks ago.cooked chopped and mixed with natural yoghurt (Aldi's is 55p for 500gms) its delicious and very cheap healthy pud

Funky_Bold_Ribena

Don't stress over the beans! Leave them on the plant to dry and once fully depodded and dried, use instead of kidney beans in stews and chillis all winter.

I've composted two marrows today, and shoved about 10 large ish courgettes in a tray out the front on Sunday with 'free to a good home' and the lot was gone in an hour.

This weekend I am pickling everything.