Hi Friend!
You know those neighbors who show up every summer all excited handing you an oversized baseball bat zucchini full of seeds and you have to smile politely like:

"Oh wow… thanks so much…"

Meanwhile you’re thinking:

"What exactly am I supposed to do with this thing?" 😅

Here’s my unsolicited zucchini opinion:

Pick them younger.

Around a foot long (depending on variety of course), before they turn into giant seeded monsters.

Not only do young zucchini taste better, they’re more tender, easier to cook with, and harvesting regularly means your plants often keep producing more.

…which sounds great until suddenly you have MORE zucchini to use up.

So before the zucchini overwhelm begins—and while I’m stocking the pantry with staples for all the baking, soups, and summer cooking—here’s one resource we’ve used for years:

​Azure Standard for organic pantry staples.

This is where we regularly order:

🧈 Butter​
🥛 Sour Cream​
🥜 Peanut Butter​
🥣 Oats​
🌾 Wheat Berries​
🍞 Organic Flour​
🌮 Tortilla Wraps​

…and plenty more.

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Now… onto those zucchini recipes because chances are you’ll need them:

🍝 Creamy Summer Spaghetti with Zucchini​
​https://foodprood.com/recipes/creamy-summer-spaghetti-with-zucchini/​

🥣 Creamy Zucchini Soup​
​https://foodprood.com/recipes/creamy-zucchini-soup-recipe/​

🍞 Homemade Zucchini Cornbread​
​https://foodprood.com/recipes/homemade-zucchini-cornbread-recipe/​

🍫 Homemade Chocolate Zucchini Cake​
(Because vegetables belong in dessert too.)
​https://foodprood.com/recipes/homemade-chocolate-zucchini-cake/​

And truthfully… while online recipes are handy, I still think the best recipes are printed, stained a little, folded over, and sitting on the kitchen counter while you cook.

Many of these recipes—and many more ways to use what you grow—are inside my book:

🌱 Seed to Plate: A Homesteading Gardening Guide & Cookbook​
​https://foodprood.com/seed-to-plate-order-the-homesteading-gardening-guide-cookbook-by-laura-lawrence/​

Now tell me…

What vegetable takes over your garden every year?

– Laura

​www.foodprood.com​