recipes

I had rather a lot of big marrows in the garden and asked about for some ideas on what to do with them I was given a lot of ideas, I jokingly said mabe we should have a gardeners recipe corner then I thought about it again and it sounds quite good what do you think Nathan?

 

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Didn't work, will it be there this time ???

 

sounds like a nice idea to me - give us ideas what to do with all our produce!

 

Gets my vote for sure!

 

RECIPES?? :rolleyes: I come onto my computer to keep myself away from the kitchen cupboard! :rolleyes: - would just make me feel hungry. :rolleyes:

[ 12. August 2005, 12:53 PM: Message edited by: jjordie ]

 

What about recipes for tomaotes?

We're going to have more than we can eat on our plants this year!

 

mabe some low fat recipes then jjordie? :D

 

Our Sage and onion stuffing always used to be bought from the supermarket, usually the sausagemet sort. But when I begin to grow sage and onion I thought why not...And when I saw how to make your own on TV I started doing my own. I admit I was slightly dubious after having many years of shop bought stuffing. But now I have tried it I simply wouldn't go back...

 

Feline I can give you a couple of recipes for tomatoes via my late gran - whose husband also grew tomatoes. One in particular I can vouch for - as a child she used to give us cooked breakfasts, and used her own tomatoe sauce, which I remembered as magic and tasty with a lorra things. When she died, one of my aunts gave me the recipe, and I made it - and unlike most memories, it was just as I remembered.

Happy to share, if you would like them

 

Cooking is one of my hobbies - making and eating - but not so much of the eating nowadays (much better flavour and knowing what's in it).
Hope to find a good recipe for pumpkin pie -if the sun shines enough to make the pumpkins grow. They are only as big as tomatoes at the moment. lol :D

[ 14. August 2005, 09:34 AM: Message edited by: jjordie ]

 

Hi jjordie, I don't have a recipe for pumpkin pie but I have a nice one for pumpkin and apple crumble, even better if you are growing apples in the garden.

 

Hi - Be good to see the recipes for pumpkin & apple crumble & tomato sauce please!
I have an easy recipe for Pumpkin soup - Ingredients: About 1 kilo (2.2lbs) chopped pumpkin, One large onion, chopped, I clove garlic, 1/2 kilo chopped potato, 1 medium sweet potato, chopped, large handful of fresh sage, coarsely chopped, teaspoon of cumin, teaspoon of caraway seeds, about 1 litre of stock, sour cream or creme fraiche to taste. Heat some melted butter & olive oil (1/2 & 1/2), in large pan, add cumin & caraway until fragrance comes through, Fry chopped onion, until the onion is slighlty see-through squeeze in the garlic & lighlty fry (don't let it go brown) throw in pumpkin, potato, sweet potato, & toss so covered in oil & spices, Add stock & simmer lightly for about an hour until all veg soft(You may need to keep topping up the stock throughout the cooking), Add sage leaves, salt & plenty of fresh ground black pepper, cook further 2 mins , Blend & put back in pan, heat through & serve with swirls of sour cream or creme fraiche (You can replace 1/2 the stock with cider too! - or just drink it when you serve it!)
the amounts are approx I'm afraid, as I tend to grab what looks right,so you may need to play around with them.
I'll have a firtle around see if I can find one for pumpkin pie.

[ 14. August 2005, 01:38 PM: Message edited by: Bayleaf ]

 

Hi here is the recipe for pumpkin and apple crumble: Preheat oven to 190oC/gas mark 5
1.3kg pumpkin to give 850g when peeled and deseeded, cut into small chunks
900g (2) cooking apples,
60g butter,
100g caster sugar,
2 tblsp lemon juice,
1/4 tspn ground cloves,
1 tspn ground ginger,
1 tspn ground cinnamon,
100g (golden) sultanas

Topping:
300g plain flour
1 tspn baking powder
1/4 bicarb soda
150g cold butter
125g soft light brown sugar
2 tblsp demerara sugar

Put the pumpkin into a lge pan, peel and core apples. Cut into chunks add to the pan with butter, sugar, lemon juice, spices and sultanas. Cook on a medium heat for 10-20 mins until softened. Put in a dish approx 25cm in diameter and 5cm deep. Put flour, baking powder, bicarb into a bowl rub in butter to a crumble. Fork in the light brown sugar, tip the crumble evenly over pumpkin and apple in the dish. Sprinkle over the demerara sugar. Cook for 45mins approx. :D

 

:D Thanks Bayleaf and dalbuie - all I want now is for the pumpkins to grow. Checked this a.m. and one is about as big as a tennis ball now.
Fran tomato recipes would be good too.

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