What I Did With the Vegetables; Recipe for Stuffed Marrow

With Garden Mum and Dad away, we have been busy watering the garden. In the dark in hubby's case. However, being this helpful has come at huge personal cost to us. We have been forced to eat reasonably healthily this week. It's all Garden Mums fault, as I knew that she would tell me off if I let all that produce go to waste. Its been great actually, I've been more inventive with my cookery than I have been in a long while. Here I present an easy little dish which used up lots of random garden produce. Unfortunately, I cant present an image as the food was wolfed down the minute it touched the table!

Stuffed Marrow with Roasted Beetroot
Please read through and decide how you want to tackle the cooking times!

• Peel the marrow and remove all the seeds from the middle. Chop it into 4 quarters and drop it into boiling water until it softens.

• Peel the beetroot, chop it up and put it into boiling water. Cook till it softens.
• Chop up and cook your runner beans
• Cook up some wholegrain rice
• Chop up and roast some peppers with some olive oil and garlic. This usually takes about 10 minutes
• Once the rice is cooked mix this with some Parmesan, the peppers, some herbs and the runner beans
• Place the rice mixture into the hollowed out marrow and sprinkle some grated cheddar on the top
• Put all the stuffed marrows and the beetroot into a large roasting tin, Sprinkle with olive oil
• Cook in the oven for about 10 minutes at 200 centigrade or until the cheddar has gone nice and crispy.
• Arrange nicely on plate with your tomatoes and a few slices of cucumber.

Enjoy!