The zucchini is coming …every day …two and three at a time! And I only planted one plant!

Here are a few ways we’ve been creatively using up these profusely growing vegetables (wonder if I can make a bio fuel out of them!):

Zucchini Parmesan: Use your favorite eggplant Parmesan recipe but substitute zucchini for eggplant. We made it the other night and it was an instant favorite.

Freeze it: My mom grates her zucchini now, and then freezes two cups in a freezer bag for use later on. Most zucchini recipes call for 2 cups. Freeze it now and make some tasty bread later.

Sauté it with some onions and teriyaki sauce.

Make zucchini pancakes – use your favorite potato pancake recipe but substitute the z for the p!

Don’t feel like cooking? Make zucchini people out of it. Fun for the kids, allow them to decorate the zucchini with yarn for hair, other vegetables for eyes…use your imagination. Then grate it up for some zucchini bread.

What is your favorite way to use up this vegetable?? Anyone have any good ides for yellow squash? That’s next on my list of what “not” to plant next year!

Thanks! Happy gardening and cooking!

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If you have kids, you might be familiar with the phrase “I’m bored!” And if you’re like most of us adults, we long for the days when we thought we were bored…when summer days seemed to last forever . . .

While boredom could lead to trouble, sometimes it’s OK to be bored. In today’s world of 24/7, rushing here and there, cartoons all day and night, computers and video games, sometimes being bored is a good thing.

Next time you hear “I’m bored” tell them “good, it’s good to be bored sometimes.” Use these times to appreciate nature, to take time just to sit and relax or to gaze at the sky and figure out what shapes the clouds look like. Sometimes having nothing to do is just what the doctor ordered. Sometimes we all need to be “bored” to appreciate what we have.

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