2025 seems to be a good year for cucumbers. We’ve already made our usual cucumber pickle so we’re making cucumber relish as well. The ingredients are very similar to the pickle but you end up with something that is a bit like piccalilli, thicker than a pickle and suitable for using on sandwiches and as…… Continue reading Recipe – Cucumber Relish
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Another Courgette Chutney
The courgette glut means that we have many meals with courgettes but, the glut doesn’t last long and everybody needs to spread out their consumption of courgettes. Chutney is one way of storing courgettes and there are many different recipes. This is a very simple one with few ingredients which tastes fine and keeps well.…… Continue reading Another Courgette Chutney
Recipe – Courgette and Apricot Chutney
The glut of courgettes is always difficult to deal with. They need to be picked often to encourage more to set but if you miss one it can rapidly get big. Chutney of any sort is always a good way to deal with a glut and it will keep for up to 12 months in…… Continue reading Recipe – Courgette and Apricot Chutney
Recipe – Courgette, Ham & Cheese
With the courgettes growing quickly, its easy to miss some so this is a recipe that uses the large ones you’ve missed. It also continues to use the tomato sauce you made last year when the tomato glut hit. Its also simple and quick. A meal in a dish Ingredients (for one) Large Courgette (700…… Continue reading Recipe – Courgette, Ham & Cheese
Recipe – Grilled Courgette with Parmesan Cheese
This is one of the simplest recipes for using courgettes, getting some of the glut used up. It makes a tasty side-dish to accompany whatever you may be eating. Simply slice the courgettes into piece about 1/2cm thick and put in the oven/under the grill for 10-15 minutes to cook gently/soften. When soft(ish) cover with…… Continue reading Recipe – Grilled Courgette with Parmesan Cheese
Recipe – Courgette Pickle
Unlike 2022, 2023 was not a fantastic year for cucumbers, there were as many as we needed (around 10 over the summer months) but not enough to make pickle. However, the courgettes have done well, particularly the “Tromba d’Albenga”. These are a climbing variety which grow fruit up to about one metre in length. The…… Continue reading Recipe – Courgette Pickle
Recipe – Tomato & Courgette Risotto
This year (2023) we seem have a glut of Courgettes. We have grown five plants (the same as we did last year) but so far (mid August) we’ve had more courgettes than we did for the whole of 2022 and there are more growing quickly. The tomatoes are not going as quickly (we’ve currently harvested…… Continue reading Recipe – Tomato & Courgette Risotto
Tasty & Healthy Simple Vegetarian Lentil Loaf Recipe
This lentil loaf is something that we have reasonably frequently but only now have I decided to add it to the recipes on this website. The reason for doing this is that it today we made it using sieved juice from home grown tomatoes, rather than bought tomato juice. It seems to have worked well.…… Continue reading Tasty & Healthy Simple Vegetarian Lentil Loaf Recipe
Recipe: Simple, Tasty Tomato Sauce
The tomato glut that you get through August and September can’t be dealt with just by eating. On average from our plants we get around 40kg of tomatoes (more if its a good year). There’s a balance to be made between cherry tomatoes which can be eaten with salads and larger tomatoes which are good…… Continue reading Recipe: Simple, Tasty Tomato Sauce
Recipe – Tasty Cucumber Pickle
For the first time in many years we have a glut of cucumbers. This isn’t because we have particularly more than usual (although the plants are doing well) but because my better half is unable to eat salads at the moment and I can’t get through the cucumbers. So we had to look for something…… Continue reading Recipe – Tasty Cucumber Pickle