Zuchinni, Zuchinni, Zuchinni and more dammed Zuchinni's

This year has been a brilliant year for the garden and Hubby has worked extremely hard growing plants from seed, watering them, weeding them, putting compost on them and generally telling me of for trying to kill them.  All this hard work means that our Zucchini plant or should I say PLANTS, are producing big time. 

To start with I thought he had planted three plants and even then I sighed to myself wondering what i was going to do with all those Zucchini's.  Well I just discovered it isn't three plants but more like ah FIVE, yes five.  We have found in the past that one plant does us fine producing a Zucchini every second day, which to be honest was all i could handle as I never really liked them.  These days I have 2 giant bulbus Zucchini's every day.

We are at the point where Hubby doesn't have to ask if there is Zucchini in dinner, he just instinctively knows.  Its sort of like Forrest Gumps shrimps.  We have grilled Zucchini, roasted Zucchini, boiled Zucchini, stir fry Zucchini, BBQ Zucchini, Zucchini muffins, Zucchini in spag bol, Zucchini in rice, Zucchini in mince burgers Zucchini in EVERYTHING.

It is only since I have started to be very creative with Zucchini that I have really started to like it.  I hate normal plain Zucchini, but when I sneak it in things I love it.  I mean I just popped it in my spicy rice.  My favorite so far has been my Zucchini and Cheese Muffins.  For this I just modified a Edmond's Cook book recipe.

Zucchini and Cheese Muffins.
1/2 cup cheese
1 cup Zucchini (if possible sprinkle with salt and leave to extract juice otherwise put it in a clean tea towel and squeeze the crap out of it water should come out)
2 tablespoons of sweet Thai chili or other favorite flavour
Mix
add 2 cups of sifted flour
4 teaspoons of baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
Mix again
Quickly add
1 beaten egg
50g butter melted
1/2 cup milk
Mix together
Put into muffin trays and cook at 200 degrees C for 15mins or until golden.

Enjoy
Oh and my Sister-in-law made a tasty chocolate cake with Zucchini in it.  you have no idea it is in there but it keeps it nice and moist.  Here is the link http://karen-barlow.blogspot.com/2011/02/best-chocolate-zucchini-cake.html

Happy Zucchining, may the Zucchini be with you

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