Courgette watch!

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I've been struggling to find courgettes locally, and thought it was just a local supply issue. Turns out there is apparently a national courgette shortage. So, stealth boast time - are courgettes plentiful where you are and will you post to Gtr Manchester

courgettes in January,what ever for ?

Because usually they're imported from Europe - and unless you're eating a strictly British diet (cabbage, leek, apples and potatoes at this time of year), it makes sense to mix up your diet with produce from Europe rather than further afield.

Besides, they make great soup.

" europe" in the loosest sense, far south of Spain or morroco I'd guess unless grown under glass and heated. Why not just wait and have them in season, it's like strawberries in December- weird

I suppose for me they are a summer food, with olive oil, cooked on the bbq or roasted in the oven with garlic and put through cousin cousin as a salad. For me you eat them neither hot nor cold but at a warm room temperature.

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M&S had loads of courgetti yesterday, but I haven't seen any courgettes.

Noticed his last week..no loose ones but packaged ones readily available.

Massively up in price. I'm. dedicated to making a pasta courgette and spinach thing.

"cabbage, leek, apples and potatoes at this time of year"

and squash, carrots, beetroot, turnips, swedes, lettuce/rocket/all sorts of miscellaneous salad leaves & herbs, chard/leaf beet / spinach, kale / cavolo nero, plus frozen/otherwise preserved vegetables . . .

Frankly, I don't want to eat courgettes even in summer after about the 3rd week in June!

I put courgettes into most things as a staple veg

I have been looking for past 2 weeks, they are a staple of my dh special diet.
presumed it was just our area as local veg man told me he didn't get them as too exotic for this area we are NW, Lancs/ greater Manc.

Yes, I know there are other things in season, Sadik, but some of them aren't readily available in the shops (you won't find turnips in Tesco), and the rest are hard to combine together into an appetizing series of meals, especially if you don't eat meat.

I do in fact eat pretty seasonally - so a lot more root veg and apples now - but my own working definition of that is British food with a bit of European thrown in.

Eh? My local Morrisons has turnips. (My local shop has allotment-fresh turnips, I had that conversation, bought one, and guess what? it turned out to be a swede :) (am in NE))

"the rest are hard to combine together into an appetizing series of meals, especially if you don't eat meat."
I don't know about availability (professional vegetable grower!) but it's definitely easy to make nice meals right now from what's available - I'm not totally veggy, but only eat meat very occasionally. By late April/May in the hungry gap I'd definitely admit it gets tricky, but there really is plenty of good and versatile British veg right now.

Not that I'm blaming you at all, sorry that sounds grouchy - I don't think the shops make the best of it at all.

Due to this thread I had prawns in a tomato, garlic and chilli sauce with courgetti and chopped fresh chilli for dinner last night.

It was brill.

Loads of turnips (and swedes ) in Sainsbury's yesterday.

I am currently salting down some cauliflower,pepper,onion and green beans with the intention of making another batch of piccalilli tonight , since the first batchgot given away (I only managed to hang on to two jars out of the 10 I made, sad face thing). Sadly this lot won't have courgette in, but it will still be scrumptious.

(there were some enormous cauliflowers in tesco this week, annoyingly from Spain as I try to buy British, so I might label these jars picca-ole.

I have some I chopped a few months ago and put in the freezer.

these things sometimes crop up in the financial press. I read last week that farmed Salmon in Northern Europe is getting very short this year due to some kind of disease.

I've forgotten the figures but there was a chart of market prices quadrupling.

viques could you share your picalli recipe? I love a good picalli recipe

No courgettes at my Tescos this morning :( annoyed as I was craving tofu courgette pancake for breakfast

It summer down here in the southern hemisphere and I have two plants producing three bastard courgettes a day. I have been desperately looking for ways to use them up.

Happy to post some. please, please can I post some?

I wondered why I can't get them on my Sainsbury's online order! Mystery solved!

I don't buy them often but there were loads in the supermarket at the weekend and they looked nice (quite small and dense) so I have about 2 kg in the fridge at the moment.

I had no idea there was a courgette shortage!?! But I too was a little irritated when I couldn't get them in the online Sainsbury's order as I'd put creamy courgette dhal in my weeks meal plan for last night's dinner. So I just popped to the shops yesterday morning and bought the last two packs. Tada! It was delicious! Did think it weird that everything else was abundant except courgettes though, then came on here. Maybe, with the world as it is now, I will be one of the last of our kind to have eaten that beautiful, green, versatile veg that is courgette! I have two left. Shall I eat them or freeze dry and frame them?

Lazy (preprepared) stir fry still contains courgette.

This is serious. I've copied the article and shared it on my Facebook page. Can imagine teenagers and men everywhere despairing at this crisis. And this runs hot on the heels of the '8 life-changing ways to use a spiralizer' article that I found on Pinterest yesterday.
Devastated.