[Livinhope]

  Someone mentioned courgette chutney somewhere.LOOKED IN VALS' BOOK this time  .  Does anyone have a recipe for the glut I am about to have delivered via the lotty.

[mashauk]

been Googling for courgette recipes this morning and come up with Nigel Slater one for creamed courgettes with dill. Looks fab

The pate is one I've not heard of  Sounds lovely

I came up with a luxury cake which is sandwiched together with Green and Blacks choc hazelnut spread. Sounds dreamy

I make courgette & dill soup which is lovely, and I saw a recipe for ratatouille that doesn't use aubergine but uses up loads of courgettes and it's lovely, especially in the winter if you freeze it, with a hunk of crusty bread!

[SarahB]

Let them get to marrow size and you can make a lovely white wine with them.

[Snoop]

One of my favourite courgette soup recipes could hardly be easier:

Fry onion, add chopped courgettes and thyme leaves, cover and sweat for ten mins or so. Add some water. Simmer till veg cooked. Then put in some chopped gorgonzola (about 100 g for four people), leave cheese to melt a bit and then swizz.

So good a friend of mine gave it the name of "Divine Soup" and asks for it whenever she comes round and we have courgettes.

[Livinhope]

Gorgonzola in fridge, daughter just brought back four courgettes from lotty.   Guess what?

[Madame Cholet]

Pancakes stuffed with ratatouie, with grated cheese on top yummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!

Just waiting for a few more tomms

[plum crumble]

Could someone please tell me why I have planted 5 courgette plants?? 3 yellow, 2 green. But then, I am Bonkers. I do love them, and indeed, Val's chutney recipe is about to be revisted. The yellow ones look amazing on a plate next to the beautiful green runners and red tomatoes. oooooooooh, I loves my lottie, I does. 

[PennyS]

I've just realised, I have 7....

I've got 5 Defender and 2 Summer Ball... so it's even worse than I thought.
Luckily we do lurve courgettes and so do my mum and dad and my neighbours....!

Must say I'm loving the Summer Ball - and this is my 3rd year growing Defender, really reliable.  But I might go for something a bit different next year. 
 

[needssomehelp]

OMG please dont laugh....i have just been reading this topic and have come to the conclusion that courgettes plants must give alot of courgettes.......I HAVE 19 PLANTS !!!
as you can tell its my first year of growing, i was given a plot and everyone kept giving me these lovely little seedlings  (i now know why lol) so i put them all in.
think i may be needing alot of recipes lol

[peapod]

You will be needing a LOT of family and friends, a veggie restaurant contact and a large compost bin 

[mumofstig]

If it was me.............I'd be pulling some out and putting something else in....19 plants...
unbelievable

[Madame Cholet]

Can you freeze cougettes chopped for winter ratatouie?

[peapod]

To put it another way NSH, 2 plants were enough for my family of four plus the MIL and a couple to my sons girlfriends family, and I still ended up with a few in the compo and a marrow that was never eaten

[peapod]

Can you freeze cougettes chopped for winter ratatouie?

Excellent chart here from Val
http://www.allotment-garden.org/allotment_foods/Storing_the_Surplus_Freezing.php

[sunshineband]

I only have three plants --- if only everything was as prolific  

Missed one on Sunday's pick and it turned into a monster by this afternoon   Mananged to give it to my next door neighbour for stuffing -- whew!