Summer has finally arrived in the Willamette Valley. After a long cold wet spring and an overcast June and July, August is shaping up to be nice. My friend and I do a community garden that gets started in March with potato, lettuce and pea planting. As the season progresses, we plant and plant and plant.
It’s always challenging with the zucchini plants. 1 plant in a start pot would be plenty but they always seem to come in threes. We like to have a green one and a yellow one. Notice the word one. Well neither one of us is good at just planting one of each and then tossing the extras. We always worry that the cucumber beetles will have their way with the plants and hope one will survive. This year 4 plants got in the ground, 2 green, 2 yellow.
The zucchini is coming on. Since Saturday we have harvested about 12 zucchinis plus I had 5 in my refrigerator from last week. And these plants are just getting started. They are covered in blossoms and there are many baby ones beginning their growth spurt into green and yellow whales if not plucked in time. Thus the zucchini recipes surface.
I have recipes for Zucchini Crown Bread (a savory quick bread), zucchini fritters (a Williams-Sonoma recipe), Chocolate Zucchini Cupcakes, Stuffed Zucchini (good use for the whale size), and last but not least the Silver Palate Cookbooks Zucchini Bread (which is baking in the oven as I write).
Keeping in mind I got 13,500,000 hits on Google with a search for zucchini recipes, I found this website: http://www.kalynskitchen.com/2010/08/twenty-zucchini-recipes-for-sneak-some.html
This site claims that August 8 is Sneak Some Zucchini on to Your Neighbor's Porch Day. Plus there are 20 recipes for zucchini. So sneak some zucchini around and check out the recipes and I will enjoy the first but not last Zucchini bread of the year.
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