When The World Gives You Zucchini....

...you try lots and lots of different things. So far this year we have roasted zucchini, grilled zucchini, pickled zucchini. We have mandolin-ed it up and made cold summer salads. We have sliced it and marinated it and dehydrated it for zucchini chips. We have grated it and made it into cookies and saved it to make into bread in the fall.

Today I breaded and air fried it....

And I totally invented a make-as-I-go salad.

I have two more on the counter and four more working in the garden.

This year I have been tracking my harvest. Mainly to reassure myself that -while this isn't cost effective by any means- I am at least coming closer to breaking even every year. But also, to see which varieties of things work best in the garden. I have three variety of zucchini. Fordhook and Black Beauty are in a dead heat with 14 a piece, but Fordhook has the edge heading into the weekend because BB is harder hit with powdery mildew. A close third is 8 ball zucchini with 12. While not as prolific, they are so freaking cute I will probably grow them again even if they come in last.

I am thinking I probably have about one more week, maybe two, before it is time to rip them out for the year and give their garden real estate to a fall crop.

Anybody know if whiskey and chocolate so we'll in fall gardens?

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