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I mentioned in passing to my lovely Uncle Mick that I had been given 6 large green courgettes by a dear neighbour and that I didn't know what to do with the blighters.

Bless him, he emailed back within the day with this:

Cream of Courgette Soup.

1 lb courgettes
2 ozs butter
1 tablespoon flour
1.5 pints chicken stock(3 cubes)
1 small onion
1carrot
salt and pepper
2 tablespoons single cream or creme fresh

Fry chopped courgettes, carrots and onions gently in butter until soft.
Add flour & chicken stock
Bring to boil & simmer for 15 to 20 minutes.
Sieve or liquidise.
Add cream if liked.
Season to taste
Serve with croutons (optional)
 
You haven't lived 'till you have tasted this delicious soup!

We got the recipe from a farmer neighbour.. who also provided the courgettes!!!!!


I am making it at this moment and will report back.  :D
Why don't use just buy a bigger freezer or have an extra one in the garage or something.  Save the surplus food for the bad times when there is no food available e.g. the snow.
Well the thing is.....  courgettes are a surfeit just by being  :rolleyes
:lol

Have had a surfeit of green squash from time to time

Cream of veggie soup is very nice, agreed.

Other things I do with zucs is:

mock apple pie

or sliced longwise and baked with olive oil garlic and mozarella

or sliced round wise and made into cold gazpacho

voila no surfeit
What is mock apple pie?

You couldn't be cruel enough to make apple looking pie but with with vegetables in it could you?
I seem to remember Ma in the Laura Ingalls Wilder books (love them so much I occasionally have to buy new copies) made an 'apple pie' out of green pumpkin, brown sugar, butter, vinegar, and apple-pie spices.

I always thought it sounded nice.  She also did something similar with green tomatoes, though the thing I really craved when young was the crispy pigs' tail Laura and her sister fought over.

The Courgette Soup was a success.  It was creamy and a lovely consistency (those hand-held blender things have vastly improved my soup-making, the texture is so velvety).  I forgot in the end to add any flour but it was fine without.  I added a handful of ready-made croutons 'with olive oil and sea salt' which were so moreishly light and crunchy another handful got added in.  I feel so virtuous with all that vitamin-packed juicy courgetty goodness inside me -  :thumbs

 I will never moan about being given courgettes ever again!
Our gardens must be in sync; someone just handed me half a dozen greenies when I was at the Rescue Squad last night.

Sorry Furbs, I must confess to making a dessert pie with sliced zucs, when I have too many of them. I must say, nobody has ever complained about eating it as dessert.

By the bye, zuccini is a fruit, isn't it? So courgette pie is officially a fruit pie.

I also like sliced zuccini as sweet pickles.
:eek  so I ate 'Fruit Soup' yesterday!  

:D
Well tomato soup is also fruit soup by that rule I suppose.  And it is one of the most popular kinds, although not by me.

This topic is fascinating to me as I never eat anything except what is in shops so I wouldn't buy vegetables for apple pie.

What are apple pie spices, we only ever put apples sugar and water in ours.  

I would be inspired to make an apple pie this weekend but I would have to clean the kitchen to a slightly less bateria level to be able to roll out the pastry unless I can get some pre rolled stuff in the supermarket.
Pre-rolled pastry is good, I buy pre-rolled puff pastry for loads of things, eg easy cheese pasties (just lay on cheese and anything else you like, fold up and bake) -  it's just not worth making your own.

Apple-pie spices would mainly be cloves and cinnamon, I think. Perhaps nutmeg too? I own a nutmeg grater and some whole nutmegs but rarely use it, unless making custard tart (rare!)

Oh, here you go:

Apple pie spice typically consists of cinnamon, nutmeg and allspice, with cinnamon making up the bulk of the mixture.

Pumpkin pie spice usually includes cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg and cloves, again with cinnamon making up most of the mix.


Make your own Apple-Pie Spice Mix
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