when you leave your son to pick courgettes

[hamsterqueen]

..while you are on holiday for 2 weeks, i suppose you just have to accept the fact that you have 5 massive marrows..


what was i thinking of/ at least it rained all teh time so something survived

[Jeanied]

What are you going to do with 5 massive marrows, hamsterqueen? I am in something of the same predicament...

[hamsterqueen]

step 1; ask every one i know if they would like a marrow.
step 2: cook one today with sunday lunch, onions and garlic cooked in butter and then cubed marrow added, splash of wine and slowly simmered
step 3; stuff one .. (ooh, the temptation)
step 4 : marrow and ginger jam? or maybe chutney
step 5 : doorstop?

[Two_Sheds]

I have doorstopped them before now (as in leave them on neighbour's doorsteps in the middle of the night and run away).

I've got a marrow wine on the go, it looks promising

[rustylady]

You could always try marrow rum (TwoSheds should remember that one).

[bubblewrap]

while you are on holiday for 2 weeks, i suppose you just have to accept the fact that you have 5 massive marrows..


I have one I am growing as big as I can to wind madderbat up with.
Biggest last year 9lb I already have one bigger this year & still growing.

[maytreefrannie]

You could always try marrow rum (TwoSheds should remember that one).

I have a very large marrow that was sown as a pumpkin - to be honest, I'm half afraid of using it, because it was sown with seed saved from a last-year pumpkin and I find it freakish that it didn't produce a pumpkin!

But the prospect of marrow rum is intriguing - instructions, please, Rustylady.

[Headfry]

Fantastic Two Sheds....... exactly the same idea as I had

ps I had a go at marrow wine too- I think it was ok - all a bit of a blur after the first glass really!

[hamsterqueen]

Will I never learn??

He did the same again this year!

[hamamelis]

Last year I left my housemate with strict written instructions to pick the courgettes while I was away, otherwise we'd just have a few useless marrows- I came back to her excitedly showing how big the marrows she'd managed to grow were..

If she'd just forgotten, that would have been one thing, but she was soo proud of the useless lumps! She'd been lavishing care and attention on them for weeks... She did try and eat one, it was 'orrible, and the rest just got chucked (by her, after they'd started to go rotten) so maybe, just maybe, she won't do it again..

[Incy]

Marrow burgers are scrummy or marrow houmous

[Rocketron]

Slice Marrows, allow to dry for a while and freeze.
Use them instead of Aubergines in Lasagne.
Job done.

[Hilary B]

I like stuffed Marrow.
I think what we had last week was a Mumpkin (Marrow Pumpkin hybrid, my name for it). The seeds (home saved given to me) were stated to be lantern pumpkin, but the only 'fruit' we got looked like a marrow (but slightly pear shaped). Duly harvested once of a 'won't use it if it gets any bigger' size, but once opened up the flesh had a distinctly orange tinge.
It tasted pretty good once stuffed anyway!

[mrswadders]

I'm actually quite jealous - I was late sowing my marrows so they're only the size of courgetttes! I love stuffed marrow!!!