How can you cook summer squash?

[conuly]

I actually found a great recipe (as always, I increased the chili powder, and I also added smoked paprika. Mmm. No olives, though) last week that I intend to make again before the end of summer, and freeze it for winter, but it calls for mozzarella and buffalo milk mozzarella is SO expensive (delicious, though). Well, actually, I'd probably make the recipe and freeze it WITHOUT the cheese and then add the cheese after. I'm want to start freezing meals to save on cooking, anyway, now that I have space in the freezer. But the point is I can't make it until I have some money for the raw ingredients. Excepting the zucchini.

So, how ELSE can you make zucchini? I might try a meat loaf today, which I've a. never made and b. to my knowledge never eaten but which c. seems like no more than meatballs or hamburger (do you know, Evangeline won't eat burgers if she has a choice? Even if she doesn't, she doesn't like them!) in loaf form, and all because it looks like a good way to get rid of some of the squash. (I might actually resort to hiding it. Ana won't eat it, nor Evangeline.) And over the weekend I might make zucchini waffles with cheddar, but that's out as a family dinner for the obvious reason.

Gimme recipes!

Comments

[kyrielle]

Cooked up with a bit of beef in tomato-garlic paste (I used Prego, I admit) they take on the flavor of the meat and sauce very strongly. I did 3 pounds of beef in the slow cooker, and added the zucchini atop it for the last couple hours. They were utterly mush and tasty by the end. (I like mush. You may not want to put them in for that long if you don't.)

They're also very tasty additions to stews in general.

And baked or grilled by themselves or with some light spices, but I think that would be a you-only meal again. :)

All of those should freeze and reheat nicely, from my experience, with the stew being the most questionable (tends to become soupier when reheated in my experience).

Shredded/grated onto a salad, though that doesn't use up MANY zucchini.

[kyrielle]

...this may also be of interest: http://kalynskitchen.blogspot.com/2010/08/twenty-zucchini-recipes-for-sneak-some.html

[interactiveleaf.livejournal.com]

Grill it, if you have a grill--just cut it lengthwise, paint it with butter, and grill--or slice it and put it on pizza.

[inboxfive.livejournal.com]

Stuffed zucchini!

1 onion
3-4 cloves garlic
2 TB butter or olive oil
4-5 zucchini squashes
1 pound ground meat
2 tsp. paprika
2 tsp. chili powder
1 tsp. cumin
1 1/2 tsp. salt
1/8 tsp cayenne pepper
1/4 cup breadcrumbs
Shredded parmesan

Sauté the onion and garlic in butter or oil.

Split squashes lengthwise. Scoop out as much of the insides as you can. Dice the innards and add them to the sautéing onion and garlic. When the onions are translucent, add one pound of ground meat. When the meat is browned, add the spices, salt, and bread crumbs.

Lay the zucchini exteriors in a baking pan and fill them with the ground meat mixture. Top each zucchini half with parmesan cheese.

Bake for 30 minutes at 350 F.


And then, of course, there's always zucchini bread or zucchini cake.

[marveen.livejournal.com]

I get a lot of mileage out of plain thin-sliced zucchini either sauteed or broiled with garlic, butter, and salt & pepper. Eat with gusto.