Zucchini Wars by Barbara Kingsolver from Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

Read this article, and you'll get a taste of life around here lately! Zucchini Wars by Barbara Kingsolver from Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life We have a subscription to a local farm, Storytree Farm. For $500 a year, every Saturday during the growing season we make the trek out to Battle Ground to pick up a box of whatever fresh produce is ready to eat that season. Anne and Nelson Lawrence have become like members of the family. We stop and gossip, the snackers feed the goats, and we leave with a bin of yummy stuff. We are in week 7 or 8. The first week was 10 heads of lettuce (not kidding, three or four different kinds, but still rabbit food) and some radishes. So far this season, we've seen snap peas, cherries, berries, radishes, onions, shallots, etc. As the season progresses, the variety increases. Last week it was lettuce (only two kinds but the heads are getting bigger), onions, potatoes, cucumbers (three kinds), green beans (the cutest, skinniest, tastiest green beans you've ever tried), and (for the third week running) zucchini. Four kinds of zucchini, but still zucchini. And I still had zucchini from the two previous weeks! I've tried everything. Zucchini bread, chocolate zucchini muffins (yum, even the littlest and pickiest of the snackers liked them), zucchini cookies (disaster of such epic proportions that I now no longer have cookies sheets), grilled, roasted and fried with every meal, zucchini salad, two kinds of pasta salad with zucchini, etc. You get the idea. Any new suggestions are welcome. We went to the Clark County Bee Keeper's family barbecue just so I could make a zucchini salad and leave it there! Last night, we invited everyone we know in Camas to join us as Camas Nights for a picnic. The city of Camas sponsors a Summer Concert Series with music in the park every Wednesday in August. Last night was Conjunto Alegre (Latin/Salsa) music, and all the zucchini salad (four kinds!) they could eat. Here's the problem, there's only 48 hours until the next delivery and I still have a gallon zip lock bag filled with patty pans and half of another filled with some gorgeous light green variety. HELP!!