I've been eating a lot of zucchini lately

[Kaleva]

My wife froze enough zucchini to make zucchini bread throughout the winter and I've been eating dehydrated zucchini chips, zucchini soup, zucchini casserole and for lunch I had broiled zucchini. Even then, there are several zucchinis on the kitchen counter that need to be dealt with. My wife has been in the hospital for a spell and so I'm eating this on my own.

4 plants provides plenty for the two of us and as the seeds in the packet last for 5 years, I don't have to buy zucchini seed for sometime.

[MyOwnPeace]

1. Mine went so crazy that.....

I'm looking for unlocked cars so that I can make a "donation!"

[Arkansas Granny]

8. I've heard stories of people leaving bags of zucchini on porches under cover of darkness.

[trueblue2007]

23. NO ONE EVER GIVES me and the hubby zuchinni and we both love it.

[Wounded Bear]

2. Are you speaking Italian yet?

[NRaleighLiberal]

3. big find for us was some great recipes on the Smitten Kitchen site.

we also found a great chocolate zucchini bread recipe. Did alot of grilling or roasting, too. I replanted it in the same strawbales..hoping for some September squash!

[Kali]

4. I use it as a meat extender in several recipes

you can restuff big ones with the chopped meat and whatever other things you like to stuff with. but one of my favorites is to brown some hamburger, onion, garlic and zucchini - cut up in to whatever pieces make sense - normal size can be sliced or in half moons, larger into slices and quarters, huge may need to be seeded and peeled etc. then add some chopped canned or fresh tomatoes and their juice. simmer until the squash is just cooked but still has a little texture.

I also add a small can of El Pato hot sauce. this can all be served on rice or on steamed (microwaved) corn tortillas - top with lots of chopped cilantro and queso fresco or other cheese

[OriginalGeek]

15. There is not one single non-excellent word in your entire post

And here all I have ever done is slice them up with yellow squash and some onion and steam them and add butter and salt and pepper. I have been under-utilizing my zucchini. Thanks for the ideas!

[Kali]

16. they are so bland you can throw them in anything

one year when we were super poor I was even putting old bacon grease on them and feeding them to the dogs

[OriginalGeek]

17. Lol! Id'a eaten that!

Lucky dogs!

Well, how "old" was it? i do save bacon grease for a little bit to cook stuff in.

[Kali]

18. as I recall it was getting funky but not putrid, probably mixed with other grease

and oh yeah, I definitely save it!

[OriginalGeek]

20. "funky" is about where my wife makes me toss it

she's probably saved my life or at least our toilet on numerous occasions.

[Kali]

21. it will keep forEVER in the fridge

I have one of those strainer cans and keep it by the stove even in summer, have never had pure bacon grease go bad. that could be because it gets used and we don't do bacon as much as we used to. I have a big deep fryer that I used to dump all kinds of used oil and shortening in and it would go a little "off" after a while. that is what we fed the dogs for a a few weeks one summer. they got the overgrown zucchini and old cheerios with grease. not much different than cheap dog food I bet.

[634-5789]

5. 4 plants would last me

350 years. I'm OUT.

[yewberry]

6. Well, you know what they say...

Teach a man to fish and he'll eat for a lifetime, but give a woman a zucchini plant and the whole neighborhood gets fed.

[MyOwnPeace]

11. Good one!!!

In one of Garrison Keillor's books (are we allowed to talk about him anymore?) he talked about the Lutheran Church at Lake Woebegone and the "Christian vegetables in the Vestibule" at the end of every summer - the "bachelor Lutheran Farmers" would have such abundant crops that they felt it their duty to leave their bountiful harvest to help other in the town (who ALSO had abundant crops)!

[Arkansas Granny]

7. I spent the weekend at my son's house. He had zucchini waiting for me. I made 2 large loaves of

zucchini bread and a casserole using zucchini, yellow crookneck and pattypan squash and some of his heirloom tomatoes. He thought his squash bonanza was over, but we've had some good rain and they started blooming again.

[frazzled]

9. Anyone want some basil?

Mine went crazy this year (and I only container garden on a rooftop). I’ve made so much pesto it’s coming out of my ears. Caprese salads three times a week. And still it comes.

Offering free sorrel as well: it was fun making sorrel sauce for fish, sorrel mayonnaise for salmon croquettes, sorrel soup with prawns. But I’m kind of over it now.

[MyOwnPeace]

12. "It was fun......

....but I'm kinda' over it now!"

Yeah, that's what a good summer garden will do to you!

[abqtommy]

10. According to a quick search, zucchini can also be called courgette, courgettes, squash or

summer squash. Since courgette is a "French loan" word used in the English language and
courgette translates into Turkish as uzul or uzun kabak we have our choice of languages that excessive consumption might influence us to speak.

And since zucchini comes in both green an yellow varieties it may be interesting to see how this influences our skin color!

note: This is great. I totally forgot about tRUMP for a little while!

[MyOwnPeace]

13. According to "Stormy"

it wasn't a zucchini, it was a mushroom!

[Bayard]

14. I'm giving away cantaloupes and humongoid watermelons

Of course they all come in at once. I'm a watermelon addict, but these are 30 pounders. Takes a couple days for even me to eat one.

[Submariner]

19. Zucchini Spaghetti is a diet staple for me now because the pasta carbs are not good for me

Some good marinara with homemade Italian meatballs. and the Zucchini Spaghetti is a great substitute for the pasta.

[Kali]

22. it does make a decent pasta sub, I agree!

[electric_blue68]

24. My mom made a great zucchini soup! I've ...

basically done the slice and sauteed with onions, garlic olive oil, maybe topped with parmesan at the end.

My favorite zucchini humor story years back was warning city people newly moved to the 'burbs to keep their car doors locked when they visited Mall. It's The Suburbs- it's safe enough to leave the car doors unlocked!

Well... yes, as far as crime goes.... BUT...
leave them unlocked, and you're likely to return to at least one, if not two paper bags filled with
bread loaf size zucchinis!

Bwaahahahaaaa! 😂😂😂😂

Thirty-five years later and stillfind that hysterical!
(I was getting Organic Garden Magazine at the time).

[Baitball Blogger]

25. I can't grow zucchini!

Maybe the wrong time of the year in Florida.

[Kaleva]

28. "Growing & Watering Zucchini in Florida"

https://www.gardenguides.com/102174-growing-watering-zucchini-florida.html

[Baitball Blogger]

30. thank you!

[Kaleva]

31. YouTube and the internet have really helped me with my gardening!

[Marthe48]

26. My Korean sister-in-law

would cut it in thin slices, then strips and salt it. After it set for a little while, she would squeeze as much juice out as she could and then use it in her fried Korean dumplings or stirfry.

I put a yummy zucchini casserole recipe in the DU Cooking and Baking forum last month. I also made an almond flour zucchini blueberry bread, which was delicious and almost guilt-free.

I haven't gotten many free zucchinis this year. :/

[Kaleva]

27. I looked up and bookmarked your recipe and I'm going to give that a try!

[Marthe48]

32. Hope you like it

another DUer made it and liked it. My grand kids like it, which is 2 thumbs up lol

[Kaleva]

29. Food processed and bagged 3 gallons of zucchini in the freezer this morning

My intent is to use that to make zucchini soup to can when I get more tomatoes out of the garden. If my calculations are correct, I ought to be able to can 21 quarts of the soup.

[Marthe48]

33. You are going to be so busy!

And so content after the work is done