If you are lucky enough to have a glut of any home-grown veggies this year then I applaud you for ‘watering well’. The cartoonist, Bill Tidy always told me that home-grown veg was used as a currency in his village with ‘new and original’ recipes being traded as enthusiastically as the produce itself. I urge you to experiment – most things can be made into a chutney, a ‘bake’ or made ‘posh’ by adding a bit of cream or crème fraiche. Monty Don has a tasty, if rather unusual, recipe for cucumbers. He quickly fries them in butter, adds a splash of cream, and a little salt and pepper. Let it bubble for a minute or so and serve piping hot. That would work with courgettes too – and there’s always a glut of those.
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