burkphoto wrote:
When it ripens, that is a distinct possibility. We have some good zucchini bread recipes just for that emergency.
Around here, that happens in June and early July. One year, we planted two plants. We should have planted one... The stuff grows like a weed.
Only problem is one pound of zucchini makes 30 loaves of zucchini bread.
mikee wrote:
Only problem is one pound of zucchini makes 30 loaves of zucchini bread.
No, it makes about one loaf! I make it occasionally and have for years. All it takes is about two medium or one large Zucchini.
clint f.
Loc: Priest Lake Idaho, Spokane Wa
Drove by a farm with a sign saying “ free zucchini with each kitten, or visa versa.”
The zucchini dilemma starts with the nurseries. You can't just buy one plant. They sell them in sets of 2 or 4 when everyone knows one is enough. l've made all kinds of stuffed zucchini from veggies, sausage, tuna salad, etc. but I recently stumbled on a new recipe that knocked my socks off. If you are a pesto fan, try this one: Zucchini butter. It's a combination of garlic cloves, butter and zucchini cooked slowly to reduce it to a loosely spreadable paste. From that point, you can add cooked pasta and thin with the pasta water, add some parmesan and chopped basil. It's like a mild creamy pesto. Or you can spread it on toast or spread it in a raw scooped out zucchini. Possibilities are endless.
clint f. wrote:
Drove by a farm with a sign saying “ free zucchini with each kitten, or visa versa.”
There is no such thing as a free kitten, as I have been telling my kids for years. Somehow, we wound up with their cats...
burkphoto wrote:
There is no such thing as a free kitten, as I have been telling my kids for years. Somehow, we wound up with their cats...
Now do you see what is happening here? One zucchini post and we now have numerous zucchini recipes, tons of comments, suggestions and stories. This will go on long after the zucchini season passes. HELP!!!
Mark
markngolf wrote:
Now do you see what is happening here? One zucchini post and we now have numerous zucchini recipes, tons of comments, suggestions and stories. This will go on long after the zucchini season passes. HELP!!!
Mark
Most of us old farts don’t have anything better to do, apparently.
BBurns
Loc: South Bay, California
burkphoto wrote:
There is no such thing as a free kitten, as I have been telling my kids for years. Somehow, we wound up with their cats...
We refused the cats.
They promised that they would take care of them.
We knew better.
Then they wanted to move back in during summer break to work and save money.
We knew better.
We solved that issue too!!
I recently stumbled onto a new zucchini recipe I'd not seen before. It's called zucchini butter. It's a combination of zucchini, butter and garlic cooked down to a loose paste. takes about 30-40 minutes. You can google zucchini butter and get lots of different recipes. Once you've got the zucchini butter, you can add cooked spaghetti, some basil and parmesan cheese and it's great pasta dish, like a mild creamy pesto sauce, You can spread it on toast, or stuff a raw zucchini with it or whatever strikes your fancy.
As an aside, the glut of zucchini is all the fault of the nurseries. You can't buy just one plant. The sell them in cartons of 2 or 4 plants when everyone knows one is enough.
I slice and seed them than cook them in pasta sauce and when softened mix in Cooked pasta of your choice (linguini is my choice)a little hot pepper flakes and some parmigiana reggianno and enjoy.
CSand
Loc: Fayetteville, Georgia
Tried a new receipe. Zucchini pizza casserole. Bottom layer shredded zucchini with 2 eggs. Cook 20 min. Top layer ground beef, 1 can tom. sauce, Italian seasoning, cheeses. We added green pepper between layers. Cook 20 min. longer but watch closely for burning of first layer. Basically heat through top layer and melt cheese. Quite good. I added leftover mashed potatoes to mine. Bit like Shepherd's Pie. Quite tasty. google for measurements and drain and squeeze liquid from Zucchini.
Zucchini is quick growing, I have watched them grow from flower to 10 inches in one week, a bit to large.
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