What veg / fruit do you have loads of at the moment? For me it is broad beans, chard, turnips, strawberries and raspberries. Ideas for different ways to dish up these treats would be welcome. Are veg the stars on the plate or also-rans?

This weeks fav of mine steamed broad beans with mint, thyme or any fav herb and cooked in a fritter batter for a change with a sweet chilli sauce.

Strawberry and rhubarb crumble.

Wilted chard and a soft cheese rolled inside cooked lasagne sheets with a cheesy topping

rasberrry and banana milkshake if I am in a hurry in the mornings.

Any exciting ideas for turnips would be welcome!

This sounds lovely - what is your fritter batter recipie?

Raspberries - Eton Mess.

I often use my surplus chard in a goats cheese & swiss chard flan, using the cheat's quickie pre-baked Sainsbury's pastry flan cases.

Soft fruit gets compoted and mixed in with either a fruit jelly made with water, or occasionally with milk/cream to give it softer creamy texture.

Am a bit stumped for using turnips as I've stopped growing them now and grow kohl rabi instead which we find has a milder, more delicate flavour, and can be cut up into matchsticks and used raw in salads, coleslaws, or in thin slices in a vegetable stirfry.

Blackadder II, Baldricks Turnip Surprise.

Hi Elle, I just used a corn fritter recipe and swapped beans and herbs for the corn and chilli, or I guess it might be equally nice using an onion bargee
batter recipe and chickpea flour
Primrose thank you, some nice ideas.
Peter, lol, eton mess sounds ok... oh come on share Baldrics recipe!

Baldrick's Turnip Surprise

[Baldrick enters, wearing an apparatus on his head which is dangling a piece of cheese from the end of his nose. Edmund begins to speak about something, then notices.]
Edmund: [calmly] Why have you got a piece of cheese tied to the end of your nose?
Baldrick: To catch mice, My Lord -- I lie on the floor with my mouth open and hope they scurry in.
Edmund: ...and do they?
Baldrick: Not yet, My Lord.
Edmund: Well, I'm not surprised -- your breath comes straight from Satan's bottom, Baldrick. The only sort of mouse you're going to catch is one without a nose.
Baldrick: That's a pity, because the nose is the best bit on a mouse...
Edmund: Any bit of a mouse would seem like luxury compared to what Percy and I must eat tonight. We are entertaining puritan vegetable folk, Balders; and that means no meat.
Baldrick: In that case, I shall prepare my Turnip Surprise.
Edmund: and the surprise is...?
Baldrick: There's nothing else in it except the turnip.
Edmund: So, in other words, the Turnip Surprise would be...a turnip.
Baldrick: [realization] Oh yeah...

For a less simplistic turnip recipe, try torshi lift This is pretty much how we make it, but we leave out the dates.

Eton Mess.
Whipped double cream.
Broken meringue.
Raspberries.

Combine coarsely in ratio of your taste.

ROFL Alan, will try that pickle as only smaller ones left now.
Peter, thank you
Jostaberries and loganberries in full flow now!

We have lots of blackcurrants too

Hi Gallotments, lovely, blackcurrants are delicious, last year I had more blackcurrants than redcurrants, this year more redcurrants, no idea why.

Runner Beans.

Lucky you OH, my Wisley Magic runners are healthy and growing well but planted later than yours, couldn't do much gardening till Mum went into respite for a bit, she gets up to mischief if I disappear into the garden!
I just planted a different modern variety for a late crop, trying moonlight.