Fun Things To Do With Zucchini

It's winter now, and the garden is sleeping.  But, soon it will be that time of year, when things are growing and fruiting.  Soon we'll be asking ourselves that age old question: "What the *%*$ am I supposed to do with all these zucchinis?!"

Ah, the humble zucchini.  It's an amazing little plant.  Easy to grow, hardy, prolific, and tasty.  It can be grilled, baked, roasted, stuffed, boiled, steamed and turned into cake.  A single plant will provide you with more fruit than you can stand for most of the growing season.  You have to make sure to harvest every single day, though.  Or else......

I'm usually very careful to get every zucchini off the plant, but occasionally I miss one.   Last year I found a monster hiding under a leaf.  It was a veritable Zucch-zilla.

What does one do with such a monstrosity?  Naturally, you take pictures.  I posed it next to things, so the observer could get an idea of it's size. 





It's bigger than a baby.

It's almost as big as a horse's head.  That's a big horse, by the way.  I wouldn't try to cheat by posing the zucchini with a pony.


Then I got creative.

I put the zucchini to work.  Mowing the lawn is such a chore, much better to have the produce do it.

Ummm, pretend you didn't see that.  I was really bored that day.

I couldn't bring myself to cut it up.  You can't just destroy a fruit that awesome.  Especially one that mows the lawn.  Then a funny thing happened.  The zucchini turned orange.  I displayed it with the pumpkins.

Even stranger still, it never went bad.  I still have it.   It's lasted as long as the winter squash.  I don't even keep it in the basement for storage.  It lives on the windowsill in the sunroom.

So, remember:  Always pick your zucchini every day!  Or else.......