Left entirely to its own devices, in the overgrown untended patch, the plant produced one solitary courgette, which grew and grew and..
Monday, 8 September 2014
When courgettes go rogue...
One of our courgette plants showed no promise all summer. It flowered then the flowers would fall off and despite reguring checking not a single fruit was to be found. Until now....
...and I suspect wouldn't have stopped if I hadn't tripped over it whilst watering! Weighing in at 4.7kg, this hefty marrow is probably as woody as can be inside, but on the off chance it isn't....has anyone got a good marrow recipe that will convince my marrow phobic family that's its worth eating....suggestions please!!!!
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I don't have any recipes but I hope you find one soon - it's been an odd year for courgettes here, some prolific and some producing v little in deed.
ReplyDeleteYikes! Well, you could use a tiny portion of it to make my deeeelicious zucchini cake :http://theviewfromgreatisland.com/2013/09/end-of-summer-zucchini-cake-with-browned-butter-frosting.html
ReplyDeleteI don't like courgettes - even yesterday I thought how nice the yellow ones looked - so I bought some and tried making a vegetable chilli - normally I LOVE vegetable chilli but it was awful and I threw it away!
ReplyDeleteI've been here - the things don't stop growing if they are left to get on with it. I
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