Perhaps it's just an erroneous perception but zucchini
seems like the most ridiculously productive veggie in any garden. Ever year, people talk about how they
have too many and they don't know what to do with them. They offer to bring them into the
office for co-workers. They make
it sounds like a plague. For some
reason, these folks with their mythical zucchini never seem to cross my
path... until the other week. The Island Crew was up to visit Finn
for the first time and J.P.'s brother brought up six enormous specimens. Each one must have weighted over a
pound.
It was like the gauntlet had been thrown down. What to do with them... They were older thus were a more fibrous and had large hard seeds. I thought about it for a long time before copping out with the old reliable stand-by for older veggies: soup. I gutted the zucchini to get rid of the wooden seeds, sautéed some onions in a little butter, put in some garlic and thyme, chicken stock and whizzed it all up with the immersion blender. A dollop of sour cream and ended up with a darn fine soup.
It was like the gauntlet had been thrown down. What to do with them... They were older thus were a more fibrous and had large hard seeds. I thought about it for a long time before copping out with the old reliable stand-by for older veggies: soup. I gutted the zucchini to get rid of the wooden seeds, sautéed some onions in a little butter, put in some garlic and thyme, chicken stock and whizzed it all up with the immersion blender. A dollop of sour cream and ended up with a darn fine soup.
