Courgette recipe #462
It was the Allotment uber Gaffer that set fire to the grass on our new allotment annexe. Unfortunately (actually, irritatingly) the fire has burnt a hole in our nice new - and expensive - pigeon netting. We only draped it over the plants last week. I'm a bit miffed, but he did pull out all of the stops to find us the extra space, so I'll let him off. More impressively, I've found out that he keeps chickens on his plot. This makes him some kind of minor deity in my book, and therefore beyond any form of mortal reproach.
I got talking to our allotment neighbour today. Well, I say neighbour, but she's kind of our neighbour squared, being on the plot sandwiched between our two bits. She's been on there since last year, but we've never really got to know her (although we did give her vegetable spaghetti plants earlier in the year). We're rarely around at the same time and when we are we're both intent on getting on with work. Anyway, she's interested in chickens too, so some sort of communal chicken madness scheme is hatching in my brain. Unfortunately Fluffius Muppetus has already taken the best possible chicken names. "Hen Solo" and "Princess Layer" makes me chuckle every time.
Anyway, enough of that. I'm about to enjoy a bowl of courgette and courgette flower risotto. Last night we had courgette pasta. Tomorrow I'm looking forward to courgette bake, with the promise of courgette ice-cream for pudding. A few weeks from now we'll be able to wash it all down with courgette wine sipped from glasses made from hollowed out courgettes, before freshening up with courgette toothpaste and a quick once over with courgette facial scrub.
In case I'm not being clear, we have a lot of courgettes. A lot. We have a lot of French beans too, but that's another story. On a more practical note, we're most of the way through harvesting the onions, and it appears that we've got a lot of them as well.
I got talking to our allotment neighbour today. Well, I say neighbour, but she's kind of our neighbour squared, being on the plot sandwiched between our two bits. She's been on there since last year, but we've never really got to know her (although we did give her vegetable spaghetti plants earlier in the year). We're rarely around at the same time and when we are we're both intent on getting on with work. Anyway, she's interested in chickens too, so some sort of communal chicken madness scheme is hatching in my brain. Unfortunately Fluffius Muppetus has already taken the best possible chicken names. "Hen Solo" and "Princess Layer" makes me chuckle every time.
Anyway, enough of that. I'm about to enjoy a bowl of courgette and courgette flower risotto. Last night we had courgette pasta. Tomorrow I'm looking forward to courgette bake, with the promise of courgette ice-cream for pudding. A few weeks from now we'll be able to wash it all down with courgette wine sipped from glasses made from hollowed out courgettes, before freshening up with courgette toothpaste and a quick once over with courgette facial scrub.
In case I'm not being clear, we have a lot of courgettes. A lot. We have a lot of French beans too, but that's another story. On a more practical note, we're most of the way through harvesting the onions, and it appears that we've got a lot of them as well.
posted by AllotmentBoss at 9:02 PM
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My brother in law grows veg at work in the greenhouse there and he too has a glut of beans and courgettes and brought some of each home for us today, so I knocked up a rustic style ratatouille, frying the roughly chopped beans and courgettes with onions and garlic in a dash of olive oil. I added tomato puree and the 5 cherry tomatoes that I had in the fridge, stir fried a little longer and then added water, approx 1 pint. I cooked the dish for a further 5 minutes so as to get all the flavours infused, but avoiding losing the crunch from the vegetables.
I haven't been organised enough this year to grow any courgettes, but my kitchen garden is growing and I am learning new stuff at every turn. Love your blog and have linked to it from mine.
We have 1 courgette plant, which has turned out to be a bit of a monster. We've given away 8 courgettes, the chickens have eaten most of a big one (they like it grated) and we're now experimenting on eating our way through the rest of the glut before any more of the things grow. We've had courgette pasta bake, courgettes fried with onion and garlice, I made courgette cup cakes last night (although I haven't been brave enough to eat one yet!) and we have raw courgette in our lunch boxes to see whether that's an idea that will fly. I've seen a nice Cretan recipe for courgette and feta fritters, but we haven't got that far yet.
Thanks for your posts. We're limbering up to keep chickens, so knowing that they like grated courgette is a useful little hint!
thank you nice sharing
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