Today I Cooked...

[PyreneesPlot]

What do you think of a thread like this? I couldn't find one, but its probably lurking just out of sight.

Despite a houseful of cookery books and a cooking background I still sometimes stare blankly at a pile of just harvested grub - most often courgettes - and have no inspiration at all. Or end up doing the same old stuff over and over again.

It might be useful to know what other folks are doing with their harvests, right now.

I'm not talking recipes, just something to trigger the ideas corner of the brain, before it shrivels up and dies.

So.

Last night we made flour tortillas and filled them (at the table) with little gem lettuce, raw red peppers and chillies, tomato and chilli sauce, cheese and a sliced, grilled pork spare rib (marinated in chilli!). Eating with fingers. Messy. Ummmm.

[Feral007]

Not home grown unfortunately but today we had a bbq with meat. But also red cabbage, apple and walnuts. Grated beetroot and carrot and walnuts. Could have swapped the meat for those huge flat mushrooms with garlic and cheese in them on the bbq.

[taff]

just made a curry with a mix of green thai paste and madras paste, to use up courgettes and runner beans.
Having a tomato and cucumber salad with oil and vinegar for dinner to use up the french black toms so I can save some seeds from them.

[darcyvuqua]

beetroot bread had it with a chunky slice of cheese in the middle great stuff

[PyreneesPlot]

My complete carrot harvest, boiled and unadulterated. Both of them....
Roast pattypan squah with garlic. BBQ & chillie sauce to go with mutton chops. Taste like they'd spent the summer climbing about in the mountains. Tasty but tough!

[ladylottie]

Mixed vegetables just plain boiled. Everything home grown - Dwarf French beans, Climbing French beans and Runner beans all boiled up together with onions and garlic. Yum. Will be having some more Climbing French beans tomorrow night with grated courgettes, patty pan squash, garlic and onions.

[OverWyreGrower]

(Last night's tea) - slow roast pork (4hrs) with a mediterraean spice rub, mashed potatoes, yorkshire puddings, carrots and a fantastic Scrumpy Apple Sauce that we brought back from Cornwall with us

[Farmer_Gyles]

yesterday the missus made courgette cake ... it's like chocolate cake, very moist, nom nom nom ....
and sorry, don't know the recipe so you'll have to google it ....

last night we had roasted veg .... just a mix of the tiny spuds that are left over after cooking the normal ones, onions, shallots, tomatoes, courgettes etc ....

we have LOADS of courgettes, sliced, fried lightly, frozen .... they go in stews, bolognaise etc .... great for bulking up dinners .... which means we get extra portions for the freezer ....

[darcyvuqua]

my wife has some garlic and olive bread in at the moment i dont like olives but it does smell nice

[Capsid]

I made a deep blackberry and apple pie, so loads of fruit.

Ratatouille to use up courgettes, aubergines, peppers and tomatoes - all home grown.

French beans with tomatoes - this is simply delicious.

Green Beans With Cherry Tomatoes Recipe - Food.com - 30951

A courgette curry

Courgette Curry Recipe - Food.com - 306613

And curried runner beans

Ceylonese Spiced Runner Beans Recipe - Food.com - 111959

plus I pickled some beetroot

Auntie Heather's Awesome Picked Beetroot Beets Recipe - Food.com - 232009

and finally an aubergine and red lentil moussaka.

All vegetarian meals.

[Thelma Sanders]

Tonight it's roast home-grown veg - spuds, peppers, onions, tomatoes, trombone squash and a skinny aubergine with garlic and a couple of soddiges on top

Raspberries for pud

[bearded bloke]

[ATTACH=CONFIG]31874[/ATTACH]beetroot bread had it with a chunky slice of cheese in the middle great stuff

Could you post the recipe please (or a link to it) I fancy having a go at that

[bearded bloke]

Tonight PP,I shall be cooking stuffed marrow.Home grown marrow stuffed with (home grown) garlic,onion,tomato,(brought) mushrooms,cheese & pork

[northepaul]

(This weekend as its the only days I get to do any serious cooking)

Sat: Lunch home made pitta type bread with home made homous and tomatoes from next door.
Dinner Salsa Verde made with tomatillos - absolutely gorgeous. Vegan home made refried bean and rice Burritos with Nachos to start....nomity nom!

Sunday:
Made Apple and Celeriac soup for lunch with home made tomato bread
For Dinner: moroccan squash& chickpea pasties with homegrown spuds and farmers market French beans.
Also made some white rolls and me and the DD made banana flapjacks for packed lunches.

[stella]

Cheese and crackers, had a bad day so the best I could come up with