Salt soup, anyone?

[Steve Maskery]

Well it's hot and I don't have the appetite I used to have, so I was looking round for a recipe for something light but tasty.

I found a recipe for courgette soup and, as I appear to have grown an absolutely massive courgette, I thought it would be perfect. So I roasted my courgette, made a soffritto, boiled some potatoes and added the courgette. Whizzed it all together and tasted it. OK, but a bit bland. Added some black pepper and Maggi. Needs more salt.

So I got my tub of sea salt from the cupboard and shook it over the pot. Not much came out, so I shook harder. The top came off, the entire tub went into the pot.

The whole lot is now on the compost heap

Anyone got a plate of dinner going begging?
S

 

[AJB Temple]

Get a salt pig.

 

[CHJ]

I just shook my head when I read this,

I'll refrain from repeating the comments the Boss who remembers meeting you on occasions at the various wood events came out with.

 

[Steve Maskery]

Get a salt pig.

I've got one. Well it's a salt frog actually. I like it, she doesn't, so it's been hidden at the back of a cupboard

I just shook my head when I read this,

I'll refrain from repeating the comments the Boss who remembers meeting you on occasions at the various wood events came out with.

I assume it was along the lines of, "Well he looks like a right plonker!"
S

 

[AndyP]

Didn't weigh them but after 10 days away 2 buckets loads of apples, windfalls, went on the compost heap.

For excess courgettes, or marrows, try this

Marrow & ginger jam

A traditional way to use up marrows, or courgettes, that have grown too big for their boots

www.bbcgoodfood.com

Plenty of pectin needed to get it to set.

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[Lurker]

The salt will cock up the compost heap

 

[Steve Maskery]

The salt will cock up the compost heap

Ouch, I never thought of that. Damn.
S

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Adding salt to courgette soup reminds me of Samuel Johnson's quote on cucumber.

 

[John Brown]

Except that was pepper and vinegar, IIRC.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

It was. "A cucumber should be well sliced, and dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out, as good for nothing."

 

[John Brown]

I have often quoted that, as a cucumberphobe.

 

[fiveeyes]

It was. "A cucumber should be well sliced, and dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out, as good for nothing."

For shame...I just finished one, and a tomato, for dinner. NO vinegar..Ranch dressing.

 

[Doug]

The salt will cock up the compost heap

Ouch, I never thought of that. Damn.
S

But at least it’ll deter the slugs & snails