Re: [london.food] Marrows

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On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 09:20:15AM +0100, Martin Frost wrote:
> Juliet Kemp wrote:
> 
> > The nice organic delivery people have delivered us some marrows.
> > But there's still another one to use up.
> > Anyone have any (vegan) suggestions?
> 
> You could turn it into a curry. I once found a recipe for marrow
> curry in a book and it was very nice (though I did make it with
> large courgettes rather than marrows).

Ooh.  Curry is a good plan.  I like curry, & Pete makes very good curry.  

> Alternatively, you can make a sauce of some kind and serve it
> on top of a pile of steamed marrow chunks.

We've got a lot of tomatos currently as well, so that might be a plan.  

> I suppose it depends on why you don't like marrows. Is the taste
> or the texture?

The taste - in that they don't seem to *have* all that much taste.  Just
a bit bland, really.  Curry might be one of the better bets.

Kake - I did find that marrow & ginger recipe, but it seemed like quite
a lot of kerfuffle for something which I strongly suspect we'd not use
very much.  Veg soup might be a plan, though.


Juliet

• Martin Frost 09:20 on 15 Sep 2003
  You could turn it into a curry. I once found a recipe for marrow
  • Juliet Kemp 10:39 on 15 Sep 2003
    Ooh. Curry is a good plan. I like curry, & Pete makes very good curry.
• Simon Wistow 09:30 on 15 Sep 2003
  I was going to suggest curry (Madhur Jaffrey does a nice courgette curry
  • Kate L Pugh 09:33 on 15 Sep 2003
    Ooh, does this work with marrows? I'd have thought they'd be a bit watery.
    • Juliet Kemp 10:41 on 15 Sep 2003
      They didn't give out very much water when roasted, so I imagine it would
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