It's that time of year when the zucchini is taking over our lives. Zucchini is a wonderful summer squash that can be among the most prolific plants in your garden. When this plant takes off, it takes over. Once the zucchini starts producing you'd be wise to check the plant a couple times each day. Otherwise, the perfect, cucumber-size squash you decided to give just one more day, may grow to the size of a bowling pin!
One of my summer reads this year was Barbara Kingsolver's Animal, Vegetable, Miracle. In it she describes zucchini season as the time when you have to lock your car doors even in her small town because otherwise you're likely to come back and find someone was kind enough to leave a zucchini or two on your seat!
I have just one zucchini plant this year, but at this point it looks like I'm still going to need to find some creative ways to use the bounty of the harvest. One thing I know I'll do for sure is give some to the local food shelf to share with others in need of some real, fresh food.
Other than that, there will be the usual zucchini bread, zucchini on salads, grilled/roasted zucchini, and I plan to try Zucchini chocolate chip cookies.
It may just be another way to get my family to enjoy our zucchini bounty.
Check out these other sources for zucchini recipes. You may be able to find them at your local library, or you can purchase through Amazon.com.
Photo from Springhill Community Farm, where you'll also find some great zucchini recipes.
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