I love zucchini. I loved eating it grilled or sauteed, especially with some yellow squash. But what I really enjoy is baking with it. Shredded zucchini, much like carrots or apples are great for making moist and flavorful baked goods. From cakes to breads to muffins, zucchini rocks. I’ve already featured two recipes on my baking blog. So of course I asked my mom if she had any zucchini left in her garden last week. She asked my dad to give me some from the garden and put it in the back of my van.
I was completely not expecting to find THESE when I got home.
Now that is some MONSTER ZUCCHINI. I was feeling a bit overwhelmed but had trust in my handy dandy KitchenAid Rotor Shredder/Slicer attachment which I knew would fly through the shredding.
But what I hadn’t counted on was this. I never imagined that a single zucchini would net me 17 cups! Since most recipes call for 1 or 2 cups of zucchini, I think I’m set for the year after one. I plan to give a couple to my husband to bring to work. Because for the love, there is no way I can process or use four more that size. I think I might end up like 5 minutes for mom with a freezer full of zucchini instead of blueberries.
If you are also looking for recipes in which to use the zucchini from your garden, check out my Zucchini Bread and Zucchini Pineapple Cake posts on Oh My! Sugar High. And be sure to watch out for more recipes because as you can see, there is no doubt I’ll be adding more.
And if that KitchenAid mixture attachment is making you drool, keep an eye out here on Baby Loving Mama for the chance to win your choice of KitchenAid attachment!
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We love making zucchini bread too! I need that roto attachment. Then maybe my husband won’t harass me to remove my mixer from the counter because I barely use it.
I need that attachment! I have been grating by hand!!!
Man that looks good. I am having a love affair with zucchini right now!
I ? zucchini bread! My friend’s dad makes the best juice to leave zucchini in and just grab it out n eat it. Haven’t had any this summer and am dying for some! That IS monstrous zucchini!!
Those are pretty big, I like it myself!
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I love zucchini. You can hide it in so many foods. Sauces, breads, muffins. It’s great.
That is about the size of our zucchini in our garden too. So far I have 39 cups of shredded zucchini in the freezer, I have made 2 loaves of zucchini apple bread, a pan of whole wheat zucchini bars and I have given away about 10 to the neighbors and there is still a ton more coming in all off of one plant.
That looks SO GOOD! (17 cups!?! – maybe you should start a zucchini recipe thread!) I think I need to look into get that attachment too! Happy WW!
Now that is a lot of zucchini! Zucchini bread is a favorite in our house.
Thank goodness you had a little help in prepping that. Sweet attachment!
The summer would not be complete without a few enormous zucchini. Glad you were able to put them to such good use.
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We LOVE zucchini bread over here at Casa de Dummies. Much more tasty than the banana type!
love it…
all veggies really!
that looks like a pretty big amount!
YUMMY
I don’t normally like vegetables, but I LOVE zucchini for some reason. Like you, I like it fixed just about any way!
Okay, I’ve got that recipe for Zucchini Bread, finally! I love that stuff. Gonna try it first think tomorrow morning. Nummmmmmm Thanks!
Holey Moley! Wish I could trade you for tomatoes or other yummy veggies. I planted one lemon cucumber plant and those are now volleyball sized! Yikes.
I love my zucchini sauteed up with a bit of bacon and onions. Yum! Or in Ratatouille.
Very Jealous…rabbits ate our plants up!
These remind me of the zucchini I had last week. I made some delicious bread too. Thanks for sharing.
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We too have a bunch of zucchini this year and have been giving them away. I have a great recipe I need to post for an entre. I so have to do that.
Yeah. That is a LOT of zucchini!
Thanks for the linky! I’m off to check out that Zucchini Pineapple Cake recipe…
Ha! I second the Monster Zucchini! I’m so going to try some of these recipes! They sound yummy for all this Zucchini we have!
I gave a friend monster ones like that a couple of years back. She wanted me to plant a zuchinni in my garden for
her since we really didn’t eat them, and she was going to
use them in baked goods too. Little did she know that one plant was going to make her boat loads of the stuff.
We prefer the little yellow summer squash. We pull them while they are little and fry them up with chopped garlic and onion in a vegetable oil/butter blend.
I also like to eat larger yellow squash halved lengthwise,
seeded (skin is left on) with a little butter in the center,
a little garlic salt and parsley, baked in a 350 degree oven until tender (put in a cake pan with a little water in the bottom), and then top with mozarella or pepper jack cheese and continue to bake until cheese is bubbly. We use a big spoon to eat these squash boats with. If we eat these we
usually don’t have meat on that night, but pair it up with either a large vegetable salad or a fruit salad.
wow, those are huge! I’d love to make some zucchini bread out of those!
HOLY WOW!! THOSE are Gi normous!
Thats awesome. I just picked some huge zucchini from my garden and I was trying to figure out what to do with it. So Ipulled out a cookbook and we made Pineapple Zucchini muffins tonight. So funny ihad never heard of it before and now I see you make it too. They turned out amazing. We also made Stuffed Zuchini with Couscous tonight… we had a really yummy dinner =)