Sunday, October 11, 2009

What can you do with zucchinis?

There comes a time in the life of every gardner when ONE vegetable is extremely prolific. This fall it's been zucchini squash. I have blanched and frozen lots and lots, baked zucchini bread and muffins, grilled it, fried it, steamed it, and it is still coming!! I don't have the heart to pull it out of the ground. I am looking for suggestions, recipes, funny stories, on what to do with all this zucchini.

I'll start by way of a mother's day card my daughter sent. It went something like, "Mom, in the cereal box of life, you're the prize!" with the inside saying something like "At least that's what I would think but you never let us eat stuff like that!"

I was thinking I could dress one up in a pirate suit and give it to the local church as Larry the Pirate Who doesn't do Anything, or carve it like a pumpkin and put a skinny candle in it. What would you do it you had a lot of zucchini and throwing it away is not an option?