Courgettes, courgettes and more courgettes...

elizabethp

I love marrow stuffed with sage and onion, lovely with a chicken dinner. 

wort

Briam (Greek courgettes,potatoes and tomatoes ) there's a recipe on all recipes. Baked ,can put cheese on top at the end .

greenbee

My courgettes are still tiny, but starting to flower, so I’m planning to try baking stuffed courgette flowers rather than frying - it’s less messy!

Brambling

My nephew made this lovely carrot, courgette and orange cake yesterday which will freeze   

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/carrot-courgette-orange-cakes

PipneyJane

I  freeze grated courgettes in 250g bags then add a  bagful to mince-based meals at the same point where you usually pour in a tin of tomatoes (Bolognese sauce, keema curry, beef chilli).  It ups the veggie content, bulks up the meal and, after a few minutes simmering, is totally unidentifiable as “added vegetable”.

On the courgette cake front, I can thoroughly recommend  Flora’s Famous Courgette Cake from Nigella Lawson’s “How to be a Domestic Goddess”.   It’s lovely and moist.  I don’t usually ice cakes but the frosting in the recipe is lovely. 

Ratatouille is a firm favourite in our house.  The chef at the hospital where I once worked used to cover his ratatouille with a thick cheese sauce and bake it in the oven for half and hour.  Yummy!  You can also expand on this idea and use the ratatouille as the main sauce in a vegetarian lasagne, with a cheese sauce top.

HTH

- Pip (I’m looking forward to my courgettes - they’re just flowering)

mrbadexample

I grow courgettes because my girlfriend likes them, but I can't be doing with them myself. They're ok in chutneys or grated into a bolognese sauce etc to bulk it out like you might with carrots but on their own they're foul....unless you thinly slice, dehydrate, then deep fry them to make crisps. Sprinkle with salt and pepper and then they're really very good.

Nargleblast

I have two very vigorous and healthy courgette plants grown from seed that I have been cursing and swearing at because there has been no sign of any flowers. Today, I saw flowers on both plants. I sense a courgette infestation coming on!

Rosa_Damascena

mrbadexample said:

I grow courgettes because my girlfriend likes them, but I can't be doing with them myself. They're ok in chutneys or grated into a bolognese sauce etc to bulk it out like you might with carrots but on their own they're foul....unless you thinly slice, dehydrate, then deep fry them to make crisps. Sprinkle with salt and pepper and then they're really very good.

Try them chopped into large chunks in a veggie curry and I think you will like them.

-taff

I like them fairly thickly sliced, cooked to still on the crunchy/firm side, then cooked with a mixture of parmesan and beaten eggs [ so a cheesy scrambled egg kind of thing] Nice as a lunch.

Brambling

Last night I made four big portions of a 'ratatouille' type dish (minus the aubergine) for the freezer and I've just grated a kilo of courgettes which I'll make into baked fritters when the oven is on later these will also be frozen.  Next door haven't started to hide from me yet and took two of the large courgettes i picked last night.  I've still four courgettes in the fridge    to think about and may make some parmesan baked courgettes to go with dinner.   My waistline would appreciate it if I didn't make a cake with them.....

Less plants I think next year although as I used ground where I had dug out two large dogwoods I did dig in a bag of manure and the compost from my compost bin before the start of the season, the courgettes have definitely loved it and I've two galloping pumpkin plants with a couple of small pumpkins each and a couple of patty pans with loads of flowers in the same piece of ground.  It's currently a bit like Day of the Trfffids at the end of my garden 

Edit - I've just recounted and there are 5 courgettes still in the fridge I think I may have a couple of days leeway before the baby ones are ready to pick