Ahhhhhh - courgettes and runner beans

We planted 2 courgettes in our back garden plot and they've gone mad.  Yesterday I had 10 courgettes and there's another 6 almost ready.

We love courgettes fried in olive oil with lots of cracked black pepper, we've had courgette and feta main courses, BBQs, the whole lot and still they keep coming.  Even our neighbours seem fed up of them!

In all seriousness, it's great although we are getting fed up with so much - yet we know when they stop producing we'll be sad.

And the taste is nothng like shop bought monstrosities!

We're having the same 'feast' stage with our runners - we're getting around 1 lb per day from 8 plants.  We've had runner bean curries, we're going to make chutney - and we still ahven't finished all our runners from last year!

Does anyone out there have any off the wall recipes involving courgettes?

I was going to say 'mine have got the wind' but that's not right,  the wind has got mine and devastated them, so no beans here . They've all shrivelled up and died.  Going to put them in the garden next year which is more sheltered and not up the lottie.  This is the second year hubby has had an 'erection' on the the lottie and we've got nothing.

Have you tried sauteing them then freezing? I then use in the winter to make a delicious pasta sauce with the cougettes, walnuts, cream and parmesan cheese...to die for!

how long do you sautee the courgeete for before putting them into the freezer?

Hi. washsaint and others,  Apart from your several  ways with courgettes, we make lots of soup, the favourite is courgette and dolcelatte or gorgonzola, by doing this the soup freezes well and you can enjoy it throughout the year.  This year we have a selection of green, yellow and round courgettes with which you can ring the changes with colour in the soup.  Hope you enjoy this suggestion.   Buckie.

We just baked the cake recipe and it was absolutely gorgeous!  The courgettes have kept the cake really moist and even the kids love it (they won't normally eat courgettes).

Cheers for the advice!

very quick and great meal;
slice the courgettes with a potato peeler so you have loads of 1-2mm thick ribbons, cook for a minute or 2 in a pan with some olive oil, lemon juice and either bits of chorizo sausage or some pesto, put over pasta. All in less preparation time than it takes to boil the pasta.