to think that pumpkin, squash and courgettes are too boring to eat?

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What is the point of them? They don't taste of anything!

And cucumber is the very work of the devil. With watermelon running a close second.

Okra is indeed revolting, I will give you that.

old leathery broad beans are my nemesis

Ooh I love broad beans (but not when their jackets go hard and grey, granted).

I take it back about courgettes. Last summer I had some really delicious courgettes at a party. However, as they were cooked in egg and cream in a pastry case and covered with cheese (rather scrummy quiche, it was) that rather defeats the object of them being a vegetable which is supposed to be good for you .

YAB mad!!

Courgettes are absolutely gorgeous. They can be done in butter and black pepper, then add a bit of tahini at the end. They are orgasmic!!!

They are also good in a veggie sauce for pasta - onions, courgettes, peppers as a minimum, also celery, leeks, mushrooms etc, fried then add passata and herbs. Finally add a bit of tahini. (Am rather addicted to tahini.

Butternut squash is fab if you roast it. It also makes great soup. Other squashes are a bit pointless - by the time you've peeled them and taken the seeds out, there's bugger-all left.

Cucumber - what is there to dislike? Really refreshing.

Would have to agree that watermelon is quite pointless, tastewise but again, very refreshing.

YABU - but agree cucumber is the work of the devil (but DS loves it)

Watermelon and feta salad is lovely.

Must say, I find pumpkin bloody fantastic once I have made it into a pumpkin pie.
As does DH and kids.

pumpkin is a bit crap

i am also not fond of watermelon
it's so big and wet and you have to eat the seeds, really, or spend a lot of time picking them out of squelchy red water

i came on here to defend vegetables and find i have to partly agree with you

Thinly sliced courgettes, roasted with some olive oil and oregano are delicious and a great alternative to chips.

Courgettes with pasta (either with tomato sauce and chunks of mozzarella or with a bit of cream and tons of parmesan) are a staple in our household.

Yum! So YABU a bit.

pumpkin is fabulous cooked and then pureed...lots of salt and pepper, gorgeous with fish and sauteed wild mushrooms.

cucumber, delicious sliced and mixed with lemon juice, plenty of salt and natural yoghurt. fabulous deseeded and marinated in a little vinegar and sugar.

courgettes: best thinly sliced and fried in olive oil

squash: beautiful cubed and roasted with thyme salt and pepper til golden and then mixed into a risotto.

watermelon is just crap unless you have it ice cold in a very hot country where it is not wooly in the slightest and is sweet and cold.

I agree with disliking pumpkin and squash, but courgettes are fab, especially when barbecued/ grilled.

Have to disagree completely with cucmber and watermelon. They are both so refreshing!

Butternut Squash is absolutely delicious.

Roasted with olive oil, garlic and some herbs I can eat plates of it.

Also roast it and stir into vegetable curries.

Love squash.

do you know what I do hate though? Aubergine and broad beans. yuk.

YABU, or just don't know how to cook them properly.

Won't add to the furore over pumpkins, but for courgettes - there's a dish that they did at carluccios, which was finely chopped courgette cooked in butter with pasta and breaded mozarella and spinach balls. DIVINE. Or, courgettes fried in the oil from sundried tomatoes - DELICIOUS.

Cucumber is also great, particuarly as a counter-balance to very spicy foodd (like in raita). And melon, hmmmmm.

Yes, but what about the dreaded okra though? No one is going to defend them! Surely??

YABU - I love squash, cucumber, courgettes and melon.

Okra and Marrow I really don't get - not nice at all.

Cold watermelon in summer is great (but caution in hot countries as they sometimes spike them and put them in the local river to become more juicy....ick if the local river is also used for other purposes!)

Watermelon also yummy when juiced with crushed ice.

Cucumber is great with dips.

Agree the rest are pointless!

Roast them with olive oil and herbs. Lovely!

I love okra! They are a bit weird and definitely have to be soft and a bit slimey rather than stringy, but I love them in curry from local curry house. Wouldn't entertain them otherwise.

Courgettes are scrumptions when enhanced with lots of butter/cream/cheese. Jamie puts them in pasta carbonara which I suspect is to disguise them and use them up and to make the carbonara seem a bit less flamboyantly unhealthy.

I made marrow and rhubarb jam once. My mum was horrified and refused to touch it - wartime memories of food made with what would grow rather than what actually had a flavour. Thank goodness i made it without having to worry about sugar rationing.