Trying to enjoy life as it is
"The beautiful is as useful as the useful...perhaps more so."
from Les Miserables
How about some coronation chicken using apricots; and just look at this, from the BBC, don't they all look yummy! :
We adore whole baby broad beans, simply boiled briefly, and served with a melting cheese sauce poured over. mmm.
(Seen on BBC Good Food - Broad bean - Pronounce it: braw-d be-en !!) Bless!
I found this recipe on the Saga magazine site. Thought it might be useful for those of you with a glut of courgettes. I have not tried making it as our courgettes and squashes have suffered from the wet, windy and cool weather here.
Hope the link works! I'm sure TA or Danny will be able to sort it out if not.
Hi Iris,
This is the link for your Courgette Patties I think !
They look good....I will definitely try them.
"The beautiful is as useful as the useful...perhaps more so."
from Les Miserables
Whoops! The recipe was for carrot, courgette and orange cake!!! I found it on the Saga e-newsletter I receive. Must try harder with the tech stuff. I've copied the details below:
Ingredients
Method
Grate the courgettes coarsely. Place in a sieve, sprinkle with a pinch of salt and leave to drain. Peel the carrots and also grate coarsely. Grease the bases of 2 spring-form cake tins (20cm across) and cover with grease proof paper.
Beat 2 eggs, oil and 150g sugar with an electric whisk until the mixture is white and fluffy. Mix together the flour, baking powder and bicarbonate; sieve on to the egg mixture and combine. Stir in the courgette and carrot gratings. Divide the mixture between the two cake tins. Bake in a pre-heated oven (Electric: 175 ˚ C/Fan: 150 ˚ C/Gas Mark 2) for about 30 min. Remove from the oven, leaving in the tins to cool slightly then remove and let them cool on a wire rack.
For the buttercream and orange curd melt the butter in a pan. Wash the oranges in hot water and pat dry. Peel the skin thinly from 1 orange and remove just the zest from the other. Halve the oranges and extract the juice. Add the 3 eggs, 75g sugar and 125ml orange juice and peel to the pan and stir over a low heat to make a thick sauce. Leave to cool. Stir the cream cheese until smooth. Sieve the icing sugar over it and mix well. Stir in 1-2 tbsp of orange juice. Place one cake on a cake plate, spread with the orange curd and place the second cake on top, and decorate with the cream cheese and orange zest.
I guess July veg would be broad beans, strawberries (at least mine are just colouring up now), early tomatoes, salads and courgettes (if you have been blessed with these this year).
My favourite way to treat courgettes is grilled or fried...to grill just slice thinly, season and cook over high heat until well-browned (they go crispy on cooling). To fry, slice thinly, salt and leave for an hour, rinse, drain and fry over moderate heat until reduced and starting to caramalise - season and eat as is or work into any range of dishes (fritatta is my favourite but they work as a pasta ingredient too...).
Courgettes are perhaps the most used vegetable in our kitchen - they get grated into soups and stews for bulk, roasted and baked, preserved in oil and vinegar for snacking, layered with sauces and cheeses in bakes, sliced paper thin into salads, deep fried as chips, etc - pretty much a full replacement for potatoes...so you can perhaps appreciate my frustration in not having much luck growing them as we go through between 1 to 3 kg in a week...
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