Chelsea Kaplan’s Musings About Life... After Birth
Posted by Chelsea on August 14, 2007
This summer, my mother planted some vegetables in my backyard garden. She’s all Martha Stewart like that, and I am not, so she picked some low-maintenance ones: zucchinis and tomatoes. All I had to do was water them, she said. That, I can do.
Before we left for our two-week Cape Cod trip, I watered the garden and hoped the DC area would get some rain while we were gone. Instead of rain, it got record-high temperatures, so I figured that upon my return, said plants would have shriveled up and died. When I went down to check on them once we got home, I discovered that my zucchini plants had not died, but instead had sprouted the most mutant looking vegetables I had ever seen. These zucchinis were shaped like regular zucchinis, yet they were - and I am so not kidding - 17 and 19 inches long, and about 5 to 6 inches in diameter. It was as if they had been injected with steroids or something. I was fully expecting then to sprout legs and demand I take them to my leader (surely after which they would say, “This knucklehead, George Bush, is your leader? And you eat us for dinner?”).
Next to a bowl of tomatoes, for perspective.
Seriously, these things were almost as big as my kid.
Anyone got any good zucchini recipes?
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Try hungrymonster.com. Look up Cheesy Italian Zucchini Bake. It’s similar to a recipe that I had (can’t find?) and is really good. You probably need to double it as it says it serves one. Good luck w/ your garden!
Oh My Goodness. The photo of that adorable child and those zucchini is hysterical.
Woah! I never seen anything like that? Maybe you should make zucchini bread or muffins for the momtourage?
Oh my god - that picture with Z is hysterical. They are like baseball bats! Perhaps you have a career in horticulture…
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LOL This is hilarious!!!
I loved this blog about the Zucchini madness! One summer, a bunch of kids left something on my doorstep - rang the doorbell and ran! I opened the door and found the biggest zucchini I’ve ever seen. I was afraid to pick it up - but did! I made zucchini bread for everyone I knew… Good times!! Thanks for sharing
<BR>Cheers to the LARGE zucchinis out there.
I do know that zucchini in lasagna is REALLY good! But don’t ask me how to make it (I hate to cook…blah)...lol….
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Love your blog! Maybe I’ll try growing zukes next year? Our tomatoes haven’t died yet, so there’s hope.<BR><BR>Zucchini has been a major pregnancy craving for me. Here’s two posts from my blog with recipes for Squash Pancakes, and Squash-and-Cheese Casserole. Both are kid-friendly dishes as well.<BR><BR>I find the big zukes are sweeter than the little ones anyway.<BR><BR>http://thecalmbeforethestork.com/2007/07/14/recipes-of-the-week-syrian-food-smoothie-and-pork/<BR><BR>http://thecalmbeforethestork.com/2007/07/22/recipes-of-the-week-squash-pancakes-and-pink-pickles/
One of my Super Easy zucchini recipes is actually a summer squash recipe: <BR><BR>Ingredients—-zucchini squash, summer squash, garlic (paste or minced), olive oil spray, sliver of butter, salt, pepper, parsely flakes, green onion tops <BR><BR>Cut yellow and zucchini into long french fry type slices. Spray skillet with olive oil spray. Sautee either minced garlic or garlic paste for about a minute and a half. Toss in squash, slightly sautee (do not let it get soft). Remove from heat add just a tad of real butter, a little salt and pepper. Toss in parsely flakes and finely chopped green onion.<BR><BR>I am in the process of putting together a cookbook. I have created comfort food recipes that have healthy, light ingredients hidden in them so that the family will not view it as “health food”.