Zucchini

[lucy]

Any ideas what I could do with Zucchini? If so please provide a recipe. ;D

[Clipper]

Zucchini bread is great stuff. Kathy has a recipe for it somewhere, but it is in a regular recipe book, and available about anywhere. She just grinds the zucchini in the food processor and does the usual cinnamon and stuff that you do for breads of that sort.

I like zucchini breaded and fried, when it is young and tender. I also marinate it in italian dressing, then baste it with olive oil, while I grill it on charcoal or the gas grill.

It is also good stewed with fresh tomatoes from the garden, a little fresh garlic, some onions, and zucchini cut up in bite size pieces. Season it with a little italian seasoning, and let it stew until it is tender. Being the hot pepper nut that I am I put a few hot peppers or some crushed red pepper in it also, but that is a matter of personal taste.

[lucy]

Ok so I made Zucchini bread for the first time, and everyone said it came out great. Then I put in some marinade and grilled it. That was the best!!!! I love Zucchini on the grill. I think on Saturday I will grill it again!!! Next year I'm going to start my own garden, I can't wait. I have those red berry bushes I'm going to take those out next year and put blackberry bushes there. yum yum..... There is nothing better than fresh fruit, and vegies! Thank you clipper for the ideas your the best!

[Clipper]

good job Lucy! You are making me hungry for zucchini bread now, and I didn't plant any zucchini this year. Sheesh!

[countrygal]

I'll send you some of mine. I planted ONE plant and I can't keep up!

[Clipper]

I know that story. I planted 8 hills one year, because I like to eat them when they are only about 8 or 10 inches long. Well, I ended up getting sick of them in a hurry, and when I neglected them for a while, I ended up with wheel barrows full of the damn things and they got about 2 feet long with a skin like armor plate, haha.

[countrygal]

That's when I throw them over the fence for the cows to eat!

[Clipper]

Actually at the time I had a couple of pigs, and I chopped the damn things in chunks with a hatchet and tossed them in the trough for the oinkers, haha.

That was when I lived in Point Rock. I raised those piggys one year. I think I probably ended up with about $4 a pound sausage and pork chops. I bought them at the auction, and didn't have any produce scraps from a store, old bread, or whatever. I had to raise them mostly on pig feed and finished them on corn. Good meat, but didn't save any money by raising them.

[golden]

Ok, we have so much Zucchini I tried this recipe today I sliced it thin lenghtwise put olive oil, salt an pepper an put them on the grill, let them cook an cool an then stuffed them with spinach an Mozarella cheese and some garlic and rolled them an then put them back on the grill for the cheese to melt, They came out very good! Use your imagination! I'm going to try crabmeat stuffing. shrimp, bacon, and smoked cheese and of course I have to make butterscotch zucchini bread!

[Clipper]

Ooooo! Gotta love the mozzarella, spinach, and garlic. Sounds really good. Butterscotch zucchni bread? Oh my god, that sounds good. Butterscotch is my favorite flavor for ice cream, cookies, candy, I gotta have the recipe.

[smiley]

This is my favorite Zucchini Recipe: Zucchini Stew
One pound of loose sausage(I prefer hot) sautee in a frying pan
Add fresh pole beans,white potatoes chunked and Can of whole tomatoes or fresh tomatoes chunked. After you cook the tomatoes down a bit add your zucchini. Flavor with fresh basil, black pepper some garlic salt. YOu can serve over pasta or just eat it with a loaf of fresh Italian Bread.


Clipper did you ever have breaded and fried zucchini flowers? Now that is the best!

[Clipper]

Yes I have had the flowers breaded and fried. An old Italian gentleman showed my grandfather that recipe many years ago. My grandpa and my Dad's uncle both had huge vegetable gardens every year.

I haven't planted Zucchini in the last couple of years, but I used to let the zucchini get going good, and eat what I wanted of the actual squash, and then I would start picking and frying the blossoms.

I cannot remember the old gentleman's name, but he and gramp were great friends. He is also the one that taught gramps how to bread and fry sliced puffballs, and to bread and fry elderberry blossoms.

The two of them picked and ate many different wild things. I have had milkweed, dandelion, and cowslip greens. I love young and tender dandelion greens sauteed with a little bit of diced bacon, and some garlic. I never learned to discern cowslips, so I have never been able to hunt them. I used to love to mushroom hunt, and pick both field and tree mushrooms.

French Canadians are almost as frugal as Italians when it comes to letting nothing in nature go to waste, haha. Gram and Gramp always had a "fruit cellar" full of squash, turnips, potatoes and onions, put away for winter. I still remember going to the fruit cellar with a pot and getting enough potatoes for supper from the bushel baskets. At Christmas they would still have pumpkin for pies, and hubbard squash to bake.

Sorry to ramble on. Your reference to zucchini blossoms simply sent me back to all the wonderful memories of childhood, and the goodies from the garden and nature. I still have some of gramp's gardening tools. His hoe and rake, and a grub hook for digging potatoes. I always wipe the handles down a couple of times a year with boiled linseed oil, and they are as good as when he used them last, in the 60's.

[frankcor]

My grandfolks fried up zuccini flowers. They made great sandwiches. I think pumpkin flowers and watermelon flowers were fried too.

[golden]

Clipper, just add a box of Instant pudding to your cake batter butterscotch, coconut, chocolate, vanilla!

[lilbump1980]

You can dip the zuchinni slices in egg and flour and frie them YUMMY!!!! they can then be dipped in marinara sauce or just ate with salt on them..

Frankcor- Yes Pumpkin Flowers are Great! my family has fried them for as long as i can remember dipped in egg and flour.. Yummy I am getting hungry now