Please help me use these veg!

ragz_2

Combination of friendly neighbours with allotment and my veg box, means I have a lot of green vegetables that need using.

Handful of runner beans (bit on the tough side)
Small head of broccoli
Large head of orange cauliflower (never seen one before!)
Curly Kale
Chard
Courgette (already made a cake,s till got a few kg left!)

Also have potatoes, onions, peppers and spring onions.

We are having sausages for dinner tonight with as many of the veg as I can get fussy hubby and kids to eat, so any suggestions (including which to eat first!) would be appreciated. My mind has gone blank apart from urge to smother it all in cheese sauce!

pigpen

grate courgette into any mince dish.

bin kale it is disgusting no matter what you do with it

broccoli and cauliflower.. boil lightly and serve with tonights meal.. or smother in cheese sauce for tomorrows meal.

Freeze the beans and add to your next casserole chopped into 1cmish bits.

415SanFran

fry up some of the courette onion, peppers and spring onion and add cooked cous-cous,can be eaten cold next day for lunch.
Treat the cauli the same as white, lentil and cauli curry is good. (freezes well)
Potatoes,onion, pepper,and courgette fryed up together is really nice with perhaps a few sausages.
Bombay potatoes, freezes really well.
use a lasagna dish, layer the potatoes with potatoes onion, baked beans, top off with cheeses on the top (favourate in this house) Freezes well after being cooked, good comfort food in the winter.

That all Ican think of right now.

415SanFran

pigpen wrote: »

bin kale it is disgusting no matter what you do with it

What she said !

Tiglath

I'd bin the runners but then I don't like them. Steamed kale is lovely with the fattiness of sausages. Chard works well in white wine & cream. Roast Mediterranean veg for most of the rest - drizzle with olive oil & herbs, and cook around meat. Howabout grated courgette frittatas? Soup for anything left over.

dragonette

Kale - wilt, add lemon juice and sesame seeds. Toast lightly. Delish!

Kale will prob keep a few days before it needs used if that helps, as will the other brsssicae till you get them used up

Need2bthrifty

Hi Ragz
Courgette Fritters/Pancakes might be a nice accompaniment to your sausages instead of potatoes, or on their own with a salad for lunch.

Coarsely grate 4 courgettes, lay on a towel to absorb most of the moisture. Finely chop spring onions about 5 and mix with some crumbled feta, chopped parsley & mint. Spice it up with some paprika, salt & pepper. Add approx 4oz plain flour, a couple of beaten eggs and enough milk to make quite a thick batter that will hold its shape in the frying pan. Fry for a couple of mins until golden.

I would use the broccoli, runners and kale in a soup whizzed up with either stilton or a strong chedder.

I’ve never used Chard but have seem tv chefs using it very much like spinach in pasta/stir fried dishes or soups like minestrone.

Orange cauli – new one on me too – but would be a nice colourful side dish steamed or boiled up with one of the green veg.

Have also seen kale deep fried – a bit like crispy seaweed – dangerous tho as it does spit a bit on hitting the oil.

fyredrake

Plenty of short-term options here, ie various recipes, certainly solutions for avoiding waste. Maybe true thriftiness is longer term, using resources to best effect, with no wastage and even perhaps generating other useful outcomes. Civilisation evolved from hunting and gathering, very economical (no point in hunting and gathering more than you need) to farming and its inevitable surplus, but the surplus enabled the expansion of trade. So, if this is not a one off situation, a temporary and unrepeated bonanza, then think out of the vegetable box. How about getting a rabbit?

vanoonoo

piccalilli?

lovely as gifts at Christmas - great in a turkey sandwich

Katem

Stir fry the shredded kale with anchovies and garlic.

ragz_2

Thanks for all the ideas. Never thought of putting green veg in a soup before...
Hopefully now I can eat it all up before it goes past it and ends up as pig food!