Monday, July 25, 2011

#25: Zucchini Abundance


Reason to Be Happy #25:
Zucchini Abundance


My garden is the epitome of abundance at the moment. Especially with zucchini. Last year all the plants succumbed to a vine borer that left the entire plant looking like it deflated overnight...so I over-planted this year, but not a single plant has died!

There’s a LOT of ways to eat zucchini. I grate & chop a bunch, then freeze to use for baking and stews in the winter. And I chop it up to put in my pasta. And my salads. And my gazpacho. And I grill it with a little olive oil. I even make zucchini chips.

In the wonderful book Animal, Vegetable, Miracle (which contains some great zucchini recipes, by the way) Barbara Kingsolver says, of her own zucchini abundance:
“Sometimes I just had to put down my knife and admire their extravagant success. Their hulking, elongated cleverness. Their heft.”
Amen.

2 comments:

  1. I'd be very helpful in harvesting ...and removing the abundance.

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  2. Oh, I have plans for every last one, but thanks! :-) Right now the plants are "empty" but full of blooms for the second wave.

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