"Bob Terwilliger" > wrote in message
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> Marty wrote:
>
>> For those who garden and grow zucchini, you are probably familiar with
>> the
>> nice sized zuke which you notice and say "I'll grab that in a day or two
>> for dinner" only to have heavy rains and come to find that perfect zuke
>> has turned into a giant zucchini Godzilla. They aren't so good to cook in
>> most recipes at that point because they get very fibrous, but they are
>> *perfect* for zucchini bread.
>
> I watched a Julia Child show about a month ago. In the episode, she cut a
> giant zucchini in half lengthwise, steamed it in foil, scooped out the
> seeds
> (which were too hard to eat), and used the zucchini as an edible serving
> vessel for other things.

My SIL makes stuffed zucchini. Her stuffing is similar to what you would
use for stuffed peppers and they are baked in tomato sauce.

Many years ago I was the Garden Shop manager at a department/discount store.
My customers used to bring me their excess produce that they grew from the
seeds or the plants that they bought from me. I once got two paper grocery
bags full of huge zucchini. I was single back then and had no need for
large amounts of food. I did manage to give a lot of the zucchini away but
I took the rest home and made bread out of it. I had never had zucchini
bread before. The only quick breads my mom ever made were date/nut or
cranberry.

I wound up with countless loaves of bread. But it didn't last very long
because my room mate and I had a steady stream of friends in and out of the
house. And somehow they always knew to come over when I was baking.

I once had a friend ring the doorbell and he actually had a wrapped stick of
butter in his hand. I had just taken a couple of freshly baked loaves of
yeast bread out of the oven. How he knew I was baking it, I'll never know.