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I have just come in from the garden
Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2011 4:09 pm
by yoyo123
..having picked 2.5 lbs ( just over a kilo) of tomatoes and a very large marrow..all suggestions gratefully received as this week I are mostly eating..guess what!
with apples and pears for pudding.
got to head back out and pick the chard and potatoes next
Re: I have just come in from the garden
Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2011 5:57 pm
by starmum2000
I love marrow, and if we've got any have a few slices with my roast dinner, however, as nobody else eats it there's awlays loads left!
So, here are my main uses this summer:
Chop it into cubes & throw in casseroles, bolognaises etc & tell them its carrot or potato or anything & they don't notice!
I once sliced rings about 1-2 inches, hollowed out the seeds & stuffed with any sort of meat mixtue & topped with cheese. They did eat this but not all the marrow part!
Kids favourite - marrow cake. Yum. You don't even have to peel the marrow just grate it in.
Tomatoes I would be tempted to skin, cook up with a bit of seasoning & freeze in batches as sauce bases.
I did make an apple & pear chutney a couple of weeks ago to use up the fruit, the recipe was in the Morrisons magazine.
Happy Cooking!!
Re: I have just come in from the garden
Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2011 7:02 pm
by yoyo123
thanks!
how do you cook the slices with your roast? I sometimes cook mine in cubes with onion , butter with plenty of seasoning, but a change will be nice!
I like it cubed and layered with sliced onion, tomato and seasoning dotted every so often with butter and teh n cooked tightly covered in a lowish oven for about 3 hours, breadcrumbs and cheese on top fpr last 20 mins and heat turned up.
I like the idea of the tomatoes frozen as a sauce for later in the year , they are really sweet and juicy ( still more to come!0
Re: I have just come in from the garden
Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2011 7:50 pm
by menagerie
yoyo, do you do stuffed marrow? My mum used to do this, with a herby tomato and mince filling topped with breadcrumbs and grated cheese. It was delicious.
Re: I have just come in from the garden
Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2011 7:59 pm
by yoyo123
I love it too!it's just the prospect of eating stuffed marrow from here to Christmas........
I left master yoyo in charge of teh garden when I was away and came back to marrow ****!
Re: I have just come in from the garden
Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2011 8:24 pm
by yoyo123
Re: I have just come in from the garden
Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2011 11:47 am
by Just1-2go
In desperation one year I made marrow jam! Yuk! I wouldn't recommend it!
Spiced marrow soup is nice though.
Re: I have just come in from the garden
Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2011 12:16 pm
by starmum2000
@ marrow jam!!!
... but good on you for experimenting
I just steam my marrow as a n accompanying veg.
Marrow cake is definitely the best
Re: I have just come in from the garden
Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2011 12:20 pm
by yoyo123
I have marrow baked with onions to go with the chicken today,
oven baked ratatouille with lamb steaks on Tuesday
and marrow and roasted garlic soup ( garlic also from garden, seemed a good idea to plant 39 plants at the time).
that's one down 3 more to go!!
Re: I have just come in from the garden
Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2011 1:19 pm
by scary mum
In the late seventies when wine making was all the rage my parents used to make marrow wine. It was very nice (at least to a teenager
).