Well, the long and the short of it is that I'm not so good at this posting every day thing.

The reason is the season....The pictures should tell the whole story; It's not just zucchini that grows in abundance at this time of the year....It's tomatoes and eggplant and celery and - at our house - grapes.

We inherited 1 grape vine that produces 100-200 pounds of grapes a year.

We eat them, make jam, make juice, make raisins, and last year we even made wine!

So, I know it's no excuse, but in addition to cooking zucchini every day, I've been busy canning, freezing and drying all the bounty in my garden and the farms and orchards in the area!

The Challenge begins

Last year

I couldn't

seem

to get

zucchini

to grow...

This year-

nothing

can stop it!

The

challenge

goes on!

So far this is what I have

made from my bounty:

Sept. 1: Zucchini stuffed with sausage

Sept. 2: Tomatoes stuffed with zucchini

Sept. 3: Corn salad with tomatoes and zucchini

Also, I have dried some zucchini into "chips"-pretty good!

I will take suggestions and recipes from readers......

Anything that is zucchini-scrumptious!

The Challenge

It's our second year of backyard, kitchen, organic, free range gardening.....

I overplanted, as usual. The thing is....if you have the plant or the seed or the room in the dirt-why not?

So......the garden continued to grow through the salad days of late Spring. We enjoyed various greens, radishes, green garlic, parsley, basil and brussel sprouts. Mid-summer, though, we were called away to be with an ailing relative back East. I quickly called in some friends to water the potted plants and mow our "lawn" while we were gone. Our garden is on timers, so it could keep on producing oxygen at its own pace without any outside help. We jumped in the car and drove 2400 miles and let mother nature take over.

We returned 3 weeks later to overgrown vines everywhere.

Here's the thing, though....

I didn't plant most of them. They just sprouted up from the compost. And since I wasn't here to tame them...off they went....and now we have zucchini in vast amounts.

So....

My husband has returned to the East to continue caretaking and I am left on my own with a zucchini farm.

As I am also always looking for ways to use the bounty from the garden, I decided to create the zucchini-for-a-month recipe collection. All I have to do is eat zucchini in one form or another at least once a day.

Wish me luck!