So our ward has a plot of land in Orem that we have been able to use as a garden! It has been so fun to work with our friends, the Curds, on this little garden!
We have gotten a TON of food from it! Mostly tomatoes, peppers of all kinds, and zucchini. But we are also growing summer squash, watermelons, cantaloupe, and pumpkins - we are waited for those to still mature.
In the meantime, we have had so many veggies we didn't know what to do with it all! So I decided to make some fresh salsa! Delicious!
We have also had zucchini growing out of our ears so I decided to made some chocolate zucchini cake (which I unfortunately didn't take a picture of b/c it was beautiful..) which was the moistest most delicious cake ever!! You can't tell that there is zucchini in it at all! (I'll post the recipe later because you should all make it - a good way to get your veggies in!! haha)
Another trick we found to use zucchini for is Pizza Boats. I found a recipe online and then based of that I made this:
You cut the zucchini in half, gut out all the seeds and stuff and put that in a bowl. Brown some ground beef and flavor for pizza (oregano, basil, garlic, salt, etc...) and add that to the bowl (yes, with the seeds and all the guts of the zucchini, you won't be able to taste it, promise!). Mix in some pepperonis, olives, onions, peppers, and anything else you like on your pizza! add a small amount of spaghetti sauce and cheese and then fill in the zucchini, over with more spaghetti sauce and stick it in the oven at 350 for 30 minutes. Take it out, add cheese to the top, and put it in for 5-10 more minutes. Delicious! (When you make your mixture that you put in the zucchini you may notice that you have WAY too much left over... that's ok. put it in a baggie and freeze it until your next zucchini is ready. Then just gut that one, add the guts to the stuff in the baggie and you're good to go!) This stuff tastes like pizza but is way healthier cause you don't have the crust. Fantastic.
