What Do I Do with All This *%&$#@ Zucchini?

 Zucchini

Zucchini

If it is summer, it is zucchini time. It wouldn’t really make a difference if I were in a CSA or not, when it is summer, there is a constant stream of zucchini coming into our house. It seems that everyone plants this in their summer gardens and everyone gets a bumper crop. My favorite way to eat zucchini is to just grate it and saute it quickly with some shallots or just salt and pepper. On Sunday I still had last week’s CSA zucchini (still quite fresh) and this week’s. Six was just enough to make one of my favorite recipes Mom used to make when she had her bumper crop of zucchini: Stuffed Zucchini (she used to call it “Zucchini Boats” thinking that would make vegetables sound more exciting to kids I think.) Anyway, these are great with hamburgers or any grilled meat and especially good for Sunday bbq’s because they can be made ahead of time and popped into the oven while you are getting everything else ready.

Zucchini

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Zucchini Boats

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Serving Size: 12

Zucchini Boats

This is what you will need:

  • 6 zucchini (medium sized)
  • 1/3 mayonaise, low fat will work.
  • 1/3 cup parmesan cheese
  • 1/2 tomato, peeded, diced, and drained. (I never peel 'em really. . . )
  • 1/2 onion, diced.
  • Salt and pepper to taste

This is how you make it:

  1. Parboil in salted water the zucchini until barely tender, 7 minutes.
  2. Let cool a minute or two and slice them lengthwise.
  3. Scoop out the center with a small spoon, reserving the pulp.
  4. Remove water from pulp by draining over sieve, cheesecloth, or even blotting with paper towel.
  5. Chop pulp and stir in remaining ingredients.
  6. Fill shells and place in shallow pan.
  7. Salt and pepper to taste and bake at 425 until filling mixture begins to puff and turn golden.
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July 31, 2009 by 5 Comments
Filed Under: Veggies, Grains & Sides

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  1. signals3 says
    August 4, 2009 at 3:40 pm

    thanks to shearing these are great with hamburgers
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  2. signals3 says
    August 4, 2009 at 3:44 pm

    this is a good graphs tomato nice fruit,vegetable.
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  3. Alison Nightingale says
    August 13, 2009 at 6:57 pm

    These were amazing! Thanks, Trevor, for the recipe! Charlie and I loved them.

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  4. Trevor says
    August 27, 2009 at 4:24 pm

    Thats great Alison. My mother is getting such a kick that I blogged about these and other people actually made them!

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  5. Trevor says
    August 28, 2009 at 8:56 pm

    Here is another bloggers version that was just posted:
    http://www.lanascooking.com/2009/08/26/stuffed-zucchini/

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