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nmgBack from the monster tour of England and Scotland (Southampton to Windermere and back, via Dunblane), and it turns out that we had monster produce waiting for us (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif){kind=small}
alisdairo - did I forget to tell you to help yourself?):
That's 7.26 kg of courgette (1st2lb in old money). I had to get the bathroom scales to find that out!
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Date: 2011-09-04 09:24 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2011-09-05 06:23 pm (UTC)The most common advice I've seen has been to consign it to the compost bin (though marrow rum runs a close second).
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Date: 2011-09-04 11:46 pm (UTC)We just had a courgette mush where you cook the courgettes slowly with butter and garlic for a couple of hours. I would have thought that would also work perfectly well with marrow.
More prosaically: http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/307243
I would note that if you type "What to do with a giant..." into Google, auto complete offers 'zucchini' (the USian for courgette) as the number one option. So your problem is not unique.
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Date: 2011-09-05 05:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-09-05 06:28 pm (UTC)We already have enough garlicky courgette mush in the freezer for a couple of meals, and this marrow would probably make another couple of dozen meals worth (if it's edible - my suspicion is that it'll be rather bitter).
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Date: 2011-09-05 06:40 pm (UTC)Bathroom scales on the other hand, even when they display 0.1kg increments, seem to be fairly poor on accuracy (and reproducibility / consistency), possibly because the strain gauges used must tolerate 140kg Slimming World members flattening them. I wouldn't trust the first decimal place of your result, let alone the second.
Yes, I am the kind of person who methodically loaded different test objects onto his kitchen and bathroom scales after buying them, recorded the results and then re-tested at intervals afterwards, why do you ask?
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Date: 2011-09-07 11:38 am (UTC)I believe that these scales (digital, strain gauge-based) are more accurate than your usual spring balance scales.
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Date: 2011-09-12 09:36 am (UTC)He said, it was a bit icky but it did work...
Possibly worth googling for different recipes!
And may be worth a punt anyway!