My brother Chris told me this funny story recently.
Years ago, Chris was given two huge bags of zucchini by a friend of a friend. Someone he had just met. My brother, always polite, thanked this person - but gestured that they were being too kind. Too generous.
To this, the zucchini-gift-giver replied, "Listen. This time of year, if you happen to leave your car unlocked, there's a good chance you'll come back to deliberately abandoned bags of zucchini sitting on your passenger side seat. Take them."
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For those of you just learning about growing your own food, start with zucchini and try it out next summer. You will feel like a rock star-gardener when all is said and done. They just giveth and giveth. They grow quickly and abundantly.
And then, there is the harvest. Some ideas:
1. Steam it and toss with pasta and grated Pecorino Romano cheese.
2. The obvious but very loved zucchini bread.
3. A Zucchini Fritters recipe - brought to my attention by Christa at Calendula and Concrete.
4. The lovely and thrifty Piedmont Garden Swap Group just had a discussion on preserving zucchini. One participant suggested that you can shred and freeze the zucchini and use it later for bread-baking purposes. Neat. Another recent post includes some unique recipes. Join the group - learn a ton.
5. I used to giggle at the title of this book - The Classic Zucchini Book - pre-my own zucchini harvest overages. Now, I am intruiged. 225 ways to prepare zucchini or squash. Waste not want not goes to the next level.
Years ago, Chris was given two huge bags of zucchini by a friend of a friend. Someone he had just met. My brother, always polite, thanked this person - but gestured that they were being too kind. Too generous.
To this, the zucchini-gift-giver replied, "Listen. This time of year, if you happen to leave your car unlocked, there's a good chance you'll come back to deliberately abandoned bags of zucchini sitting on your passenger side seat. Take them."
**********
For those of you just learning about growing your own food, start with zucchini and try it out next summer. You will feel like a rock star-gardener when all is said and done. They just giveth and giveth. They grow quickly and abundantly.
And then, there is the harvest. Some ideas:
1. Steam it and toss with pasta and grated Pecorino Romano cheese.
2. The obvious but very loved zucchini bread.
3. A Zucchini Fritters recipe - brought to my attention by Christa at Calendula and Concrete.
4. The lovely and thrifty Piedmont Garden Swap Group just had a discussion on preserving zucchini. One participant suggested that you can shred and freeze the zucchini and use it later for bread-baking purposes. Neat. Another recent post includes some unique recipes. Join the group - learn a ton.
5. I used to giggle at the title of this book - The Classic Zucchini Book - pre-my own zucchini harvest overages. Now, I am intruiged. 225 ways to prepare zucchini or squash. Waste not want not goes to the next level.
4 comments:
And don't forget Chocolate & Zucchini cake!
http://chocolateandzucchini.com/archives/2004/04/chocolate_zucchini_cake_imbb3.php
Yes! I just started hearing about it this year. MUST make it this week . . .
Here is another link:
http://www.elise.com/recipes/archives/000621chocolate_zucchini_cake.php
One more time - for the link . . .
http://tinyurl.com/pnf4x
No wonder my frugal grandparents grew zucchini. My grandmother made the best zucchini bread ever!
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