Today I am overwhelmed by food that needs eating as soon as possible. The cupboard still has apples in we haven't used, there is a half a courgette (edit: MARROW) in the fridge along with a full fillet of mostelle, even though I asked for only two portions. Half a kilo of clementines, they'll keep, but they're addictive. A large bowl full of chickpea and pepper sauce. Frozen pumpkin. And about a kilo of haricots verts that the man at the Agriculture Bio veg stall assured me was an appropriate portion. I asked for enough for two, but was there was easily enough for two by the time he said ' et ça c'est pour une personne'. Does this mean you eat green beans as your main meal?
I'm not complaining because this is the way that I really like to cook. It's a challenge to use things up. The problem is, we've already planned ahead to have pumpkin soup tonight. So I need to use everything else up. The beans I can eat with the left over bit of mostelle, which I will probably fry in spices and make a bit cajun as a way of going against France and their love of adding cream to white stuff. Potatoes, pasta, fish...
I could also use this in a tomatoey fish soup, like the one I made when I came across a bit of mystery bream last year. Or make it into fish and chips, because of all the potatoes we have. That'd be really nice, but failing on the healthy side...
I think I will end up blanching a handful of the beans and putting them in the freezer - I'm not sure how long they last.
But the courgette is a problem mostly because we don't have a steamer...
If I'm having fried fish for lunch, already a massive lunch when I add the beans, and I need to use the chickpea stew before it goes mouldy (probably saving pumpkin soup for lunch another day), where to I eat the courgette, where?
Do I just cook it for an afternoon snack? Make it into some courgette only salad?
That'll teach me for buying a kilo courgette to stuff for two people...
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