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Pierre de la Mer ~ sometimes slightly worried but never panicking ~ Posted Sep 3, 2015
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Reality Manipulator Posted Sep 3, 2015
I have only had zucchini's in a stir-fry. I wonder if they can be stuffed as it would make a lovely autumn dish. I have only seen the smaller zucchini's in the shops.
I love pumpkin and squash, my dad grew them when we were living in SW Scotland, they were delicious. I find them difficult to prepare due to the arthritic like pain and stiffness in my fingers which makes using kitchen utensils very difficult to use. I am looking to invest in arthritis kitchen utensils.
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Sep 3, 2015
"I have only had zucchini's in a stir-fry" [Thinker]
Raw zucchini is great, too. Slice a zucchini into spears, then dip them into hummus or any kind of dip.
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Pierre de la Mer ~ sometimes slightly worried but never panicking ~ Posted Sep 3, 2015
I can bake a good (if I do say so myself) using a lot of zucchini in my baking pan. It's usually cinnamon flavoured and very spongy
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You can call me TC Posted Sep 4, 2015
You can stuff larger ones with any mincemeat concoction, sprinkle them with cheese and bake them as a main course. (Parboil the halved courgettes first, as baking is not always enough to cook them through)
Smaller ones can be stuffed with various mixtures of cheese, nuts, other vegetables for a starter or a vegetarian main course.
I have a whole book of recipes - soups, antipasti, salads, breads, cakes. The other night I grated some and put them in a pancake batter and made rissoles. Very quick, and a meal in itself. Well, I say quick .... they should be cooked right through if you don't want them bothering you later on and that can take a good few minutes each side.
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Pierre de la Mer ~ sometimes slightly worried but never panicking ~ Posted Sep 4, 2015
On Corfu I got the house specialty at a lovely little outdoor restaurant on a balmy summer evening: Deep fried squash blossoms filled with a spicy curd
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Sep 4, 2015
Many years ago, I made fried pumpkin blossoms filled with blue cheese and sage filling.
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Amy Pawloski, aka 'paper lady'--'Mufflewhump'?!? click here to find out... (ACE) Posted Sep 4, 2015
If we end up planting too many zucchini plants again (unmarked hills, 'cause I had them in my head, replanted after the and got in and dug up and ate seeds... OK, just on the eating part, and replanted by someone else) I may just have to do squash blossoms to keep from getting garbage bags full of squash...
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Sep 5, 2015
I think it may have been just a good year for zucchinis. The 41st and 42nd zucchinis are presently growing to full size. The plants will not produce any more.
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ITIWBS Posted Sep 5, 2015
Don't be too sure.
Sometimes the go back into production after a rest phase.
Wish I could get a good zucchini crop.
I get at most 1 or two per plant in the season between spring equinox and summer solstice and 2 out 3 plants refuse to bear.
Melons and cucumbers do fine, though, in the summer heat.
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Sep 5, 2015
I managed to get a good crop by drowning a couple of plants in liquid fertilizer.
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You can call me TC Posted Sep 5, 2015
I don't think we did much other than water them. We have very sandy soil. This year I think we used bought seeds, but we have taken plants which sprung up of their own accord from the seeds in courgettes thrown into the composter the year before. As we do potatoes. They grow out of the peelings we dispose of.
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ITIWBS Posted Sep 6, 2015
Ah!
This is where I should have posted the commentary on the giant zucchini I mistakenly posted to 42 word posts.
The editing controls on this device being crude and primitive, I'm not at this time going to attempt to cut and paste to this thread.
Where did I leave off.
Squashes are notably saprophytic, like a LOT of absorbable organics in their soil.
If you give them a fish, native American style, about six inches below their roots if you're using pre-germinated starts, or even a rabbit, or that whole chicken in a can that's been on the shelf too long, they will reward you.
I'm not surprised you're getting good results with liquid fertilizer.
I usually use a liquid fertiliizer derived from fish waste from the Alaskan fisheries, or bat guano, sometimes available locally.
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Sep 6, 2015
The soil is so terrible that it' hard to get enough solid fertilizer into it to get good results. That's why the liquid stuff comes in handy.
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- 22: Pierre de la Mer ~ sometimes slightly worried but never panicking ~ (Sep 3, 2015)
- 23: Reality Manipulator (Sep 3, 2015)
- 24: Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor (Sep 3, 2015)
- 25: paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant (Sep 3, 2015)
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- 28: Pierre de la Mer ~ sometimes slightly worried but never panicking ~ (Sep 3, 2015)
- 29: paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant (Sep 4, 2015)
- 30: You can call me TC (Sep 4, 2015)
- 31: Pierre de la Mer ~ sometimes slightly worried but never panicking ~ (Sep 4, 2015)
- 32: paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant (Sep 4, 2015)
- 33: Amy Pawloski, aka 'paper lady'--'Mufflewhump'?!? click here to find out... (ACE) (Sep 4, 2015)
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