Our summer garden is just getting in full swing, except for the zucchini. Those plants passed up everything in the garden. They’re like some weird alien parasite. I can’t stay ahead of them. They spit out more zucchini overnight. If I don’t check on those stupid plants for just one day, I have zucchini of gigantic proportions.
I only have two plants, one green and one yellow. The green zucchini mystifies me. I’ve never seen zucchini that shape. I don’t know what kind they are, but they just look all kinds of wrong. The yellow plant puts out some yellow, some orange. Again, it’s a mystery, but I’m stuck with them for the season. See, look! What is up with those green ones???
I’m giving them away, but they keep getting too big too fast. I’m now on a mission to try to figure out ways to deal with the zucchini onslaught. So far we’ve had them battered and deep fried, pan fried with onions, baked in the oven with Parmesan cheese, baked in a quiche, and packed into some zucchini bread. Pretty much, I’ve just been winging it since I don’t have any zucchini recipes, but if I can figure out what it is I’m doing, I try to write it down for posterity. Started today with zucchini bread. Wish me luck.
