True Story: I hate zucchini. It is the epitome of gardens gone wrong. It will overtake a garden given one summer. Because of its easiness to grow it's hard to refrain from planting just one due to the accomplished feeling that comes from watching it sprout and grow so quickly. A true plant wrecker's dream, it is an unstoppable plant. All it takes is some water and soil and you've got yourself a monster. Unfortunately one plant can suffice a family of twelve. Two and zucchinis start getting left at houses that are frequented for visiting teaching and babysitting. Three plants and you're hopping fences after doorbell ditching someone with a zucchini taking up their doormat.
Another True Story: My mother-in-law gave us a zucchini the size of a small child. I do not exaggerate. It sat on our kitchen counter for a long while before I got over my prejudices. I vowed to make the best zuccchini muffins the world has ever known. And I did. We couldn't stop eating them! And what's more, they had zucchini in them. So they were healthy. Riiiight. To remedy my problem I cut out some sugar, added some wheat flour and felt better about eating so many. They weren't nearly as good, which meant we didn't eat as many, but they were still the best I have ever had. Even with them being less amazing then the first batch.
I got crafty the way that I do and started adding orange zest and later lemon zest and finally concluded with a peach zucchini muffin that really wasn't that good. Peaches don't cook so well. But that orange zest, that was a keeper.
I was making zucchini muffins every day for a week and we've got loads of them storing in the freezer. Handsome Husband likes taking them to work for lunch. Faster then making a tuna sandwich.
And now I LOVE zucchini. We are the best of best friends. I have dreams of planting a whole gardenfull next summer and how much fun it will be to make muffins all the time and to drop those off instead of zucchinis and have people beg me for the recipe and wonder what in the world my secret ingredient is because they sure don't taste like zucchini muffins.
Well, the secret that I will let out is this. Peel and discard all the green. That's the dead give-away. Without the green the muffins are a nice yellow and look much more appetizing to my eyes. Less like, "try this vegetable in your delicious muffin" and more like, "THIS is the secret ingredient!"
Onward Zucchini ditchers! Leave them here!
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