Zucchini

[cjsmith]

OK, you guys are all going to laugh at me when I say this, but next summer I want to try growing zucchini.

I'm serious. It's great with beef, tomatoes, onion, and garlic in a stir fry. It's lovely sliced up and steamed with yellow squash with nothing more than some pepper on it. It's probably going to be scrumptious in this cream-of soup I've got in the crock pot right now. I like zucchini bread and would make some now except I shouldn't eat any. I even plan to try scraping strips off it with a peeler and serving it like pasta. (Hey. No making fun of a desperate woman. I haven't had pesto, marinara, or alfredo in months.)

Anybody have a lot of zucchini they don't know what to do with? I can help out. I'm generous that way.

Comments

[windsea.livejournal.com]

Zucchini is insanely easy to grow. Just make sure you get seeds for one of the dwarf bush types, or it'll ramble all over your yard. It likes lots of water and sun. Make sure you lift up the leaves when you pick or you'll have one of the baseball bats growing without your knowing. And don't, for the love of god, plant more than 6 seeds, and thin those ruthlessly to 3 or 4 plants. Or you'll be overrun.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've heard legends of being overrun.

I've got a weedy patch (translation: "California native wildflowers" aka it looks a right mess out there) that would be perfectly happy hosting zucchini instead of scraggly brown stuff.

[klwalton.livejournal.com]

If you *are* overrun, you are totally welcome to leave bags of them on my front porch in the middle of the night.

I have a *wickedly* good zucchini bread recipe (krasota's grandmother's recipe), and I love the stuff with a passion; steamed, fried, sauteed, as part of a ragu, in spaghetti sauce, baked... Yum!

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Ooo! Share the zucchini bread recipe with badbadbookworm above? That way I can sneak a peek at it too. ;-)

[klwalton.livejournal.com]

Done :).

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

You rock. Thank you; it looks scrumptious.