Zucchini and More Zucchini
Touring the garden of a friend not long ago, I received this priceless gift: a whopping four-pound zucchini. Go ahead and whistle; it was a beauty. It wasn't much different in shape and size than my swaddled newborn backup dancer, nine years ago. My instinct was to put the zucchini to my shoulder and try to burp it. I swung into action: I must not waste this precious green squash! I must find ways to consume four pounds of zucchini before it went bad! In a frenzy, I dove into recipes, and we feasted on zucchini for days. You can find all the details below. But first, you may have heard that a major and seriously damning report on climate change was issued by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on August 9. Then again, you may NOT have heard about it , because a lot of us were so alarmed by what we read about the scientists' findings--even (or perhaps especially) if we only read the headlines --that we set it aside. It is hard to digest horror on that scale. ...