Vegetables

What to do when you have been given all these carrots, slightly beyond their best before date and then you find some onions in your veg bowl that have been there a while?

You add some celery and a few more onions and you devote the afternoon to making this:

Then you box most of it up and cram it into your freezer, saving some of it so you can turn this overgrown zucchini (next to a small pumpkin for reference)

into this

There were four but I had served two up before I remembered the camera and the blog! They are stuffed with a savoury mince mix, made with the mirepoix (or soffrito if you prefer your cooking terms in Italian) along with red wine, garlic and mixed herbs, then baked in passata and veg stock and covered with cheese shortly before serving. 

Perhaps not quite how my grandparents would have made stuffed marrows but the principle is much the same.  See?  I said I had gone Old School!