I was going to post some zucchini recipes, but as far as I'm concerned, the best and probably only way to fix zucchini is to saute it in olive oil until all the pieces are limp and some of them are browned and maybe even slightly charred. Add salt and pepper.

The recipes I was looking at were zucchini boats stuffed with sausage, covered with salsa and melted cheese. I can think of a lot better things to do with sausage. Then, I considered recipes for zucchini brownies, zucchini cookies, and chocolate zucchini bread. There again, I'm not a big fan of those recipes. Of course, at my high altitude here I don't get a lot of output from my zucchini plant, so I don't have an over abundance of them to deal with. I will say this: zucchini in a chocolate cake or brownie shows as green flecks that look like pistachios, so it's not the worst thing in the world.



My zucchini plant is just about done for the season: the leaves are turning yellow and there are hardly any blossoms coming along. I harvested only two fruits from it, and you see one of them in the photo. One end was big, and the other end was small, more like a gourd. Next year I'll plant two different kinds of zucchini and see how that does.