If you like Zucchini, and I do, I LOVE it, you should grow your own. You can grow it in a pot if you don't have much yard. But, you should grow it because there really is a big difference between what you buy and fresh picked. Pick them small. Tiny. They're good when they get big, but, then you have to peel them. When you pick baby Zuchs, they are so freekin' tender you don't even need to cook them. They melt in your mouth. I love them any way they're cooked, but, I love them raw in salads or as snacks. I was gonna cook this one in a pan with a small steak tonight, but, it never made it out of the garden. I hit it with the hose and chomped it. It was so delicious. You can't get that taste in a store. Ahh, well, there will be more tomorrow. I might cook up some blossoms too. Those were delicious last year filled with cream cheese. I always thought that sounded ridiculous until I got bored and made some. I could eat half a dozen by myself. Maybe I'll do fried green tomatos with the steak. If you know something better than that, you'd best keep it to yourself.
Laying on that tarp, it was soooo clean. Bugs don't like these either, except stink bugs and certain beetles and they aren't out yet. Everything is still so clean. Fuck, I hate bugs.
OMG! Make a big dish of ratatouille. Yum! I love to bake zucchini bread and give it away. Warm with butter! Yum! Men love it cuz it's loaded with chopped walnuts.
ReplyDeleteI don't know how to make ratatoulli. I;m not even sure what it is. Zuch bread is cake. You can say it isn't, but, it is. I do not like cake. I hate nuts in anything. I am picky, a terrible cook and lazy.
ReplyDeleteLooked it up. It looks good except for the peckers. I hate cooked peckers.
ReplyDeleteI wonder what would happen if you sliced zuch real thin (so it cooked fast) made a cream cheese sammie and breaded it and fried it in hot oil? I'll bet that would be fuckin' good. I might try that. I already have a pan to wash, I might as well.
ReplyDeleteI just slice it and fry it up like green tomatoes. Ratatouille is delicious.
ReplyDeleteIf I fry it, I bread it or stir fry it in steak sauce. 57. Slice some steak or pork into it. You should try that. It will blow yer mind.
ReplyDeleteWe talked about this before but zucchini relish is really good and a good way to use up surplus fruit because with zucchinis there's always surplus. I've been dying to try zucchini blossoms. I'm kicking myself for not planting any.
ReplyDeleteOmg, i love me some zucchini!!! I'll have to go get some seeds or something, or just get seeds out of one already grown. Thanks for the tip, soft zuccs for my braces!
ReplyDeletePeckers?
ReplyDeleteWhen you cook delicious peppers, they become yucky peckers. Texture of snot.
ReplyDeleteBuy your seed. Grocery produce is usually hybrid. No fertile seeds, or it can revert to the original plant (poor quality). Sometimes it works, but, it's not worth fucking with. After you harvest, you can save your own seed. Farmer's Market produce seeds are good. Grocery's sell us psuedo food. It's Franken-food. Dollar Store seeds are good.
ReplyDeleteI love roasted peppers or stir fried. You need yellow crook neck squash for ratatouille too. And cheese. I will get some 57 & beg for a zucchini when they come on. We didnt plant any. I regret it. Just forgot. But I do love it. I thought you meant peckerhead mushrooms. Which are all gone now. Nobody around here had much luck mushroom hunting this year.
ReplyDeleteso you're not harvesting peckers and cooking them?
ReplyDeleteI didn't get any Morels this year either. I never saw one. I hate squash. It's gross. I only grow it to look at it. But, yeah, try the zuchs stir fried down in 57 steak sauce and water, a little soy sauce or worshtishire (sp). The zuchs soak up that flavor and it rocks. I made it accidentally when I was fucked up one time. Delicious.
ReplyDeleteNo,crabs, I only eat raw green peppers. Love them. Just not cooked. That's nasty. Hot peppers just plain suck. I don't know why any human would eat those. I grow them in the flower bed for purdys.
OH! I just looked up peckerhead mushroom. That's a Morel! I never heard them called that. They are very umm, phallic.
ReplyDeleteOver the pond we call them courgettes & I loves em.
ReplyDeleteI chop them & an aubergine (eggplant to you foreigners, lol) into small squares, a couple of quatered brown onions & maybe some mixed peppers if you like them & then drizle with olive oil & sea salt & oven roast until they are soft.
This keeps in the fridge for about 5 days & I use it in pasta, mixed with pesto & cream cheese or mix with a tin of tuna, salad & mayo or just on bread with ham or whatever.
I love courgettes.
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Courgette? I like that.
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