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When zucchini starts appearing at the farmers markets, it REALLY starts appearing. The same can be said about homegrown zucchini. In fact, those backyard garden zucchini can often top five pounds and at least two feet long. leave a zucchini on the vine a day too long and whoa! You’ve got yourself a baseball bat-sized vegetable.
 Zucchini fritters When you’re dealing with such large zucchini, simply slicing them isn’t always the best idea. The size really makes for some tough slices so I like to shred them. If you’ve got one of those large zucchinis, you can shred the whole thing and make both zucchini bread and these spicy zucchini fritters. Continue reading Spicy Zucchini Fritters   Chip-cam close-up! When I’m trying to learn to like a new vegetable, there are two go-to preparations that I always use. I’ll pair the vegetable with cheese or I’ll fry it. Since I don’t have the greatest track record with liking zucchini, I decided to try frying it. We’ll have a recipe for zucchini fritters soon, but the first recipe I made with the zucchini in my CSA this week was zucchini chips. I was inpsired to try these zucchini chips by a local sandwich joint – Homegrown Sandwiches. They serve veggie fries as their signature side dish. We ordered them this weekend and they were excellent. So I decided to try my hand at chips. Continue reading Zucchini Chips A few weeks ago, John and I went to a farmers market feast. There were at least twenty different chefs from local restaurants who created delicious dishes with ingredients from local farms. One of the dishes we tried had julienned zucchini. Now I don’t like zucchini. In fact, I downright hate zucchini. Or I did anyway. But since we had paid for the feast in whole and the dishes were all small, I tried those little matchsticks of squash. And you know what? I liked it. I’m not sure if it was the fact that the zucchini was [...] Have you ever grown zucchini? I have. Do you know what happens to zucchini that you leave on the vine just a day or two too long? You get a zucchini the size of a baseball bat. Zucchini that size is often hard to cook with. It is tough, too large to slice into rounds, and more food than your entire family could eat in a week. So what do you do with that monstrous zucchini? You make zucchini bread of course! This is an old family recipe. I have no clue where it came from [...] |
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