Zucchini Mock Apple Cobbler

Ingredients:
* 4 cups flour
* 1 ½ cups sugar (?)
* 1 ½ cups butter
* 8 cups peeled and diced zucchini - no seeds
* 2/3 cup lemon juice
* 1 cup sugar (?)
* 1 tsp cinnamon
* ½ tsp nutmeg
* dash (< 1/8 tsp) cloves

Directions:
1. Mix flour, sugar (?) and butter and set aside
2. Cook zucchini and lemon juice in a pan until tender
3. Mix zucchini with sugar (?), cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves
* Cook about 2 minutes more
4. Remove from heat, add ½ cup flour mixture to thicken
5. Grease a 9×13 pan and:
* Add ½ of the flour mixture
* Pour zucchini on top
* Pour the remaining ½ of the mixture on top of the zucchini layer.
6. Bake at 350°F for 25 to 30 minutes

Cool and store in the fridge. Eat within a week.

I have never grown zucchini, cuz I didn’t think I liked it, but when I have a backyard again, I’ll certainly start learning to love it.

You can Google “solar dehydrator” and there are TONS of instructions on how you can make your own. You only need one day of sun (two for watery things like tomatoes). You’ll probably find a whole new blogworld out there for people who are urban gardening and urban homesteading.

Here is a suggestion and instructions on freezing zucchini. This blogger claims:

“I’m the only person on the planet who tends an enormous kitchen garden and yet bought thirty zucchini this summer.”

http://foodiefarmgirl.blogspot.com/2007/09/how-to-freeze-zucchini-my-one-claim-to.html

And Lastly, I recommend a book for all kitchen gardeners called _Animal, Vegetable, Miracle_ by Barbara Kingsolver.

Her teenage daughter made zucchini chocolate chip cookies for her 8 year old sister’s birthday guests and swore they never knew the difference.

http://www.animalvegetablemiracle.com/Zucchini%20Cookies.pdf

Have fun!!! Let me know if you try any of these.

Cindy - that is funny. I didn’t realize there were fish that would eat vegetables (although, I guess a zucchini is technically a fruit - haha). Glad to hear you’ll be trying out your own vermi-trench

Jacques - definitely a good point. I was actually thinking of doing this, but nothing immediately came to mind. I do have a shot with a tomato included, but of course tomatoes come in all range of sizes (and this one was quite large).

When taking photos of an object and one wants to portrait the size, it helps to put an object of know size, eg matchbox or coin next to it, to indicate the relevant size. Obviously if the object is bigger, your comparision object needs to be bigger eg elephant next to a car.

From sunny South Africa - yeah summer is back.