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I love zucchini, too, and last year had so much I had to get WAY more creative than ever before. I love it most of the ways listed, including zucchini bread (great recipe that I always doubled so I could pass some on to friends and family). Freezes well, too.
I started added it to just about everything (including tomato sauces and chili). Joked with the hubby that the only thing I wasn't putting zucchini in was his coffee~!!
At the end of the summer, there was still some coming and couldn't use or give away all of it, so I shredded some of it in my processor and froze it. Made the zucchini bread a couple of times over this long, cold winter and it was a real treat.
I really like zucchini sauteed or marinated and grilled. I'll probably plant a bunch of it this year. What do you like to do with zucchini and has anyone ever planted the "globe" zucchini that grows in a ball shape?
ok, here we are 4 months later and here is my opinion of zucchini: I happen to love it, grilled, sauteed, used in baking, even just lightly steamed with onions and topped with cheese or made into a squash casserole, as well as raw in salads or used in omelets;; but now the bad news.
I have been growing it for years. It does not care what kind of soil it is in or if it gets a lot of a little water, but, depending on where you live: squash bugs or bores (2 different things) can kill it in just about a day. Here it is; all pretty with lots of blossoms, and enough bees to pollinate just like you had hoped and then; it is gone. All those little squash are still little and dried up. According to, even the small farmers, when you see a sign of even one squash bug, you have no option but to use pesiides. even then it can be too late. I know I have lost my whole crop the last few years. I lost it in NM as well, but by the time the little guys took over we were sick and tired of squash and so were all our neighbors. We never had trouble in CA or in No. VA. My guess is, when the bugs once show their ugly faces or more like bodies, they never totally die out. We even had a raised garden this year and they still attacked the succhini. I saw a couple in the cukes but they never really took over, thank God.
The only thing I have ever seen people do with Zucchini is give it away to their neighbors. I had no ides anyone would eat them. I still will not eat them. LOL
I am wondering if the intent by most people was to grow a few for them and because they seem to grow so easy people get so enthusiastic that they grow too many of them and then need to give them away.
During the Halloween time I have seen plenty of interesting carvings some from Zuccini's and many other similar plants. Now that is what I would use them for, to carve.
cook them in with your tomato harvest for a great sauce base for red-sauce pasta dishes, or with eggplant and tomatoes and onions as a side for fish. herb it up.
I stuff them and bake them (cheesy polenta is good), slice thinly and sautee and use slices to top pizza, dice and use in ratatouille, all kinds of things.
Well, this year, I used them as replacements for pasta in a variety of sauces. Still haven't gotten tired of it.
I don't even use a spiralizer. My favorite way to cook it is to use a julienne tool and then saute the pile with sherry and crushed garlic and fresh herbs. Then add in some cooked ground buffalo and fresh mozzarella, then finally the jarred sauce of choice. I prefer vodka sauce, but I've also used a butternut squash pasta sauce too that was fabulous.
Globe zucchinis are great stuffed and baked. You can stuff them with about anything tasty.
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