My vegetable plot has not been quite so successful this year as in the past. My big trip to New Zealand in the spring meant I was late planting and the awful weather followed by lack of time over the summer months has meant it has all been a bit haphazard. But I have managed to grow courgettes... lots and lots of courgettes.
For some reason, totally unknown to me, I thought it might be fun to grow courgettes in different shapes and colours this year, but the round ones have sometimes been hard to spot whilst still a managable size. I currently have one the size of a football that I intend to carve like a pumpkin! But there has still been an endless supply... with which to make frittata...
Our favourite courgette filo pie (from Hugh's fabulous veg book)...
A newly discovered recipe this summer (thank you Kim) for a courgette lasagne... very quick, very easy and also very tasty... this has been made almost every week...
and there have even been courgette chocolate cakes.
But finally as I settle into a comfortable Autumn/Winter Sunday routine of homemade soup, bread and cake for lunch, today I have used the last of the home grown courgettes in a carrot and courgette soup.
And in case you ask, the cake was a lemon and thyme loaf (From the Hummingbird Bakery Cake Days)... using home grown lemon thyme.
The other thing I managed to grow were some rather splendid squash... raised from seeds extracted from a squash in my Abel & Cole box several months ago. Using another brilliant recipe from Hugh's book (this really is my all time favourite cook book.... everything I've made from it is wonderful) for squash stuffed with leeks, they made a fantastic supper last night.
Eaten off trays whilst we watched Strictly!
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