Matters vegetable...

[caddyman]

A little over a week ago we grabbed a bunch of courgettes off one of our plants on the upper bed and cooked them up with various other stuff – much of it home produced - for a tasty meal. We have had several meals from the two plants we have, now and that’s not including the cucumber, tomatoes (which will soon be in glut!) and mange touts. After a slow start because of the long winter, it’s been very good on the garden produce front.

This time last week we noticed that there were three or four new courgettes growing, but they were as yet only small, so we left them to put on a bit of volume. By Saturday they had come along nicely and we picked them. One had clearly enjoyed the weather and had grown, in less than a week, from something about an inch and a half long to become a reasonable sized marrow.

Quite how the brute grew so quickly is anybody’s guess. You might have almost expected to hear it expanding over the five or so days it more than quintupled in size.



We looked up recipes for baked marrow/courgette and ended up with something that looked and sounded exceptionally tasty – onions, tomatoes and the ground up insides of the marrow, seasoned with fresh basil, pepper and a sprinkling of salt, topped off with plentiful mozzarella.



This was all baked for around 40 minutes and it smelled and looked bloody fantastic.


It tasted like boiling water with cheese in it. Back to the drawing board…

Comments

[trav28.livejournal.com]

Perhaps a spicy rice filling with additional spices might sort this or a butter/spread rub with a salt/chilli rub on the courg?

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

It certainly needs something!

Over on FB where I did a similar grumble, but in less depth, someone posted up a recipe that we might try - assuming, always, that the plant produces another monster like this one!

[trav28.livejournal.com]

Good luck matey, this family of vegetable can be quite a challenge ;)