If you grow your own veg you may well be drowning in a sea of courgettes this month. What a fantastic vegetable! One plant can yield kilos and kilos for months. In our small garden we have four plants and after freezing them down we manage to eat some courgettes every week throughout the year until the following summer. Good job we like them a lot! Even if you don't grow your own you'll find them at ridiculously low prices at your local market so you can get lots in now and cook them for later. The only problem with this bounty of courgettes is NOT GETTING BORED of them! So here are some ideas to make them different. Some of them are based on recipes from the River Cottage Handbook which is great for seasonal produce. Others are gathered, made up or passed to me. So here are twelve ways to cook a courgette ? hope you like them! 1.Courgette and Cottage Cheese Teabread There is a recipe in the August Foodies Book ? Courgette Wants To Be Big ? for a courgette and cottage cheese bread ? which a young child can make with a little adult help. You can read free it in the back of the book of the month on the About Us page during August. 2. The "cook them now and save them for later" cop-out recipe Slice the courgettes about twice the thickness of a pound coin. If you've got overgrown semi-marrows, discard