Excess Beetroot, Marrow and Plums

[Peggy Sue]

I can't bear waste and I alway sew too much- hopeless aren't I?!
Anyway with too may beetroot and marrows by the million plus plum tree over the raod that no-one picks from just groaning with fruit I ahve to do something!

I've done plum jam, plum cake and eaten alot of plums, plum crumble on the cards too. Done roat beetroot, sweet & sour beetroot, beetroot cake, beetroot chutney, pickled beetroot, and chocolate beetroot brownies. Eaten stuffed marrow, layed it in lasagne, put it in a curry and ofcourse with chees sauce.

I'm guessing I could make a chutney recipe with all three in? Shall I make it up or does anyone have something they have tried?

[Millymollymandy]

Gosh Peggy Sue, after all that hard work you must be PLUM tuckered out!

[Peggy Sue]

You could make beetroot wine:- http://winemaking.jackkeller.net/reques29.asp

...plum wine:- http://winemaking.jackkeller.net/reques12.asp

...and, believe it or not, marrow wine:- http://www.wine-making-guides.com/marrow_wine.html

Well I have done Plum Brandy - which is 'get drunk quicker'
I hear Marrow rum is another option- I've not been brave enough to try wine yet..maybe it's TIME

Actually it's probably time stopping me with all this gardening, harvesting and cooking (looking for a smily that does exhausted but can't find one!)

[Milims]

With the plums Dowerhouse Chutney :
http://www.cookitsimply.com/recipe-0010-06s292.html

Yummy!

[Peggy Sue]

That look s nice- I'm really getting into chutney these days.
Did sweet & sour beetroot/marrow/plum last night- then discovred I didn't have much rice in the cupboard

[Peggy Sue]

OK I made a chutney recipe up and am really proud coz it tastes great

I used
1lb plums
1lb boiled beetroot
1lb marrow
2 onions
3 cloves garlic
all chopped up with
1/2lb demerarra sugar
1 pint white wine vinegar
1 tsp mixed spice
muslim bag of ginger root, peppercorns & cloves

I'd intended to also use a few apples but forgot to pick them and it then POURED with rain so I thought to hell with it

It's a lovely sweet spicy chutney, sort you cna just eat in mouthfulls!

Normally when I make things up I don't keep track of what I've used, don't write it down and therefore never get to make the same again- BUT, I've written it down and called it August chutney so I know when I'll be making it next year!

[ina]

Beetroot salad? Beetroot curry?

I wish I had your problems with too much stuff... Especially plums - envy!!!

[Peggy Sue]

Oh I know its loveley to have such problems, but it tears me apart to see waste so my mission is huge- shame I can't post plums to you Ina, but I don't think they'd travel well

[Millymollymandy]

I'm going to a wedding tomorrow and thinking of taking them cucumbers as a gift! I only went to the veg patch to pick some borlottis and came back with 8 cucs and yet more courgettes (sigh!).

[Peggy Sue]

I decided to fry up a batch of courgettes and freeze them in containers as thats how I like to use them and they should keep OK like that- funny how we look forward to them so much and in June you can't imagine being sick of eating courgette, in August you can't imagine what possessed you to plant so many!!

[ina]

Oh, and MMM could post me a few cucumbers, too... I love them!

We have this fruit spread in Germany made from plums, with no or very little sugar - basically just plums cooked on a very low heat for hours... It needs a lot of plums, I used to make it from 5 kg at a time, because it reduces so much. Can't do that if you have to buy the fruit.

[Peggy Sue]

Oh, and MMM could post me a few cucumbers, too... I love them!

We have this fruit spread in Germany made from plums, with no or very little sugar - basically just plums cooked on a very low heat for hours... It needs a lot of plums, I used to make it from 5 kg at a time, because it reduces so much. Can't do that if you have to buy the fruit.

So would that be like a fruit cheese? I've not tried making that...yet. I'm really brave with 'cooking' recipes but anything preserving I seem to have to pluck up courage, I think it's the mystique factor!