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Zucchini, A Perspective Piece

Lauren

I would just like to draw your attention to the biggest zucchini ever.

Biggest Zucchini Ever

The boyfriend’s mother accidentally let this one go for a number of weeks as it grew to gargantuan proportions. We decided to rescue it from the trash pile and torture a number of people with its size — hitting people with it, double entendres, and threatening to fry it up — what a wonderful find.

If you ever move to Indiana, this is the kind of entertainment you can come to expect.

16 thoughts on Zucchini, A Perspective Piece

  3. Oh…but you left out the gourds and the pumpkins. C’mon now. Equal time for gourds and pumpkins!

    (And yes, entertainment in Indiana can be a little pathetic at times.)

  7. I haven’t posted my surplus zucchini recipes yet. I didn’t plant any, and so far everyone seems to be keeping up with theirs so I haven’t been deluged with it (yet). Recipes for zucchini chocolate cake, zucchini pickles, zucchini bread, zucchini pancakes, zucchini latkes, zucchini with black beans and roasted corn with polenta, zucchini casserole, and zucchini-dill soup and probably a few more are available on request (alphabitch1 – at – bellsouth.net) and will be posted presently at my blog.

  9. If you ever move to Indiana, this is the kind of entertainment you can come to expect.

    Lauren is exactly, painfully right about this. At the onset of my teenage years, a photo I took was published in a national organic gardening magazine. The picture was of my father holding his damned-near-world-record-size parsnip, which he grew. Organically.

    FWIW, parsnips are easy to grow and make a great substitution for potatos in soups, with a similar taste, but a much less starchy texture.

  11. Actually, growing up, I’ve seen bigger, in our backyard.

    One summer we had a HUGE cyclone (pacific hurricane) hit our city, dumping not only screaming winds and ocean surges, but a phenomenal amount of rain. Needless to say our vege garden adored it, and we got zucchinis (or, as we called them, courgettes – sp?) so big my sister and I couldn’t lift them.

    So yeah, there’s your solution: dump a hurricane on your vegetables 🙂

  15. I have a neighbor who fills my car with zucchini during the night if I leave it unlocked. They’re very usable zukes. He thinks he’s funny.

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