Today I've just been helping a friend with her Mum's garden. 

The payment for this hard work - and I have the scratches to prove it! - are some lovely new potatoes, two bags of nettles for the compost heap, and loads of gooseberries.

The potatoes will be enjoyed within the next week. And the nettles have already been added to the compost heap, with a few having been steeped in water to make some liquid plant food (http://www.nettles.org.uk/nettles/activities/nettlemanure.asp).  

Eventually I found that a good way of transporting nettles is to fold them about three or four times, then put into one of those blue Ikea bags. Then they're easy to transport.

However, the gooseberries are far too many for us to eat all at once.  Five ice-cream containers of gooseberries have been put in the freezer for another day, and I'm going to make a gooseberry crumble for tomorrow, see recipe. It takes about 45 minutes to cook so need a little forward planning:
http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/2303640/gooseberry-crumble.
It'll also be nice to make some gooseberry jam: http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/2303641/gooseberry-jam

When the children were small I used to cook ground rice (or semolina) and add gooseberry puree but can't now find the recipe.  I remember it also included eggs, with the egg white whipped, which made the pudding light and fluffy.  (Are we allowed to serve raw egg whites these days?)  Something similar is here, but it's more of a cake than a sloppy pudding: 
http://allrecipes.co.uk/recipe/15925/gooseberry-semolina-souffl-.aspx;
or
http://www.monpotagercitadin.com/cake-with-semolina-and-gooseberry/

Here are a few other ideas for gooseberries:

Gooseberry and elderflower shortcake sounds good but the elderflowers here have gone over, so perhaps will try this next June or July when they're in flower again, with the gooseberries which we've just frozen:
http://uktv.co.uk/food/recipe/aid/514232

Gooseberry and strawberry hazelnut cake sounds good:
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/jul/11/goosebery-sorbet-strawberry-hazelnut-cake-recipes-ruby-tandoh

On the savoury side, I remember that gooseberries are nice with  mackerel.  
http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/panfriedmackerelwith_84849
and
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/recipes/10988483/Grilled-mackerel-with-gooseberry-relish-recipe.html


And another savoury recipe is: http://www.yummytummyaarthi.com/2014/02/gooseberry-rice-recipe-nellikai-sadam.html