Is there any money in Zuchini Farmin'? - The Firearms Forum

polishshooter · 07-07-2007, 02:03 PM

My GOODNESS, I FIRST picked a couple of nice ones last Sunday, my wife fried them up nicely, then I last picked a couple of nice young ones Thursday that I boiled up last night, there were only a couple of 1 or 2 inchers on the plants after those...

TODAY? I picked Three more nice ones, one about 12 inches, and I now have about 25 SHOWING between 1 inch and about 3 inches....

I figure by NEXT weekend we will be SICK of Zuchini, and the NEXT week begging neighbors to take them!

Good thing my wife likes to grate them up and freeze them to make her Zuchini Bread around the holidays....but I THINK she's going to be busy grating SOON....

Anybody got any good Zuchini recipes?

Anybody want any Zuchini?

BOY am I glad I only put in 12 plants and two of them died.....

Now if the TOMATOES would just hurry it up a little I'd be in HEAVEN....

Pistolenschutze · 07-07-2007, 02:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by polishshooter

Anybody got any good Zuchini recipes?

Anybody want any Zuchini?

Polish, if you haven't tried it, try frying up sliced zuchini along with chopped bacon. Great stuff!!

Second question: In a word, NO!

I have six zuchini plants growing out back!!!

Bruce FLinch · 07-07-2007, 09:42 PM

Now Polish, Didn't you ask about planting Zukes earlier this spring? or was that Pistol?? I believe I advised someone 3-4 plants would be enough. Now, soon all your friends & neighbors will be locking their doors @ night so that the "Zucchini Fairy" can't visit!

apache36 · 07-07-2007, 09:49 PM

good thing he's talking about Zuchini, i was beginning to get concerned.

polishshooter · 07-08-2007, 08:58 AM

Yeah, Bruce, I've been here before, but I didn't put a garden in at all last year, and for two years prior my Zuchini just didn't cut it, I'm lucky with 6 plants to have gotten a total of 8 or 10 of them before the plants all withered and died in the hot weather of late summer, not matter how much I watered, so we were always disappointed lately...

I usualy only planted a couple of plants and the rest seeds though....

But THIS year I fertilized the heck out of it before I tilled, then put the Zuchini plants in the TOP of the garden not the bottom where I always put them for 20 years or so, where I USUALLY put the Tomatoes, put the Tomatoes where the Corn usually went in the middle, and the corn at the bottom....with two rows of cayenne and jalapenos between the corn and the 'maters for my wife's "salsa..."....

And it was touch and go, I put it in late, right at the START of the 3or 4 week week drought, had to water every night...lost the two Zuchini plants, and the rest looked "peeked" for WEEKS, like on the edge of giving up the ghost...lost ALL the pepper plants, but I know about half of the japs WOULD have lived if the RABBITS didn't like young jalapeno pepper plants so much!

Lost about half of the 'maters too...but I always "overplant them" too just in case

and only about HALF my corn came up!

Then we had our first good soaking rain about 3 weeks or so after I planted, and suddenly everything just took off!

I even replanted the corn that didn't come up and EVERY ONE is now coming up too! I'll have TWO crops this year if the young ones finish before the SNOW

, (which I always wanted to do anyway but never did, so I don't get inundated also by GREAT corn that we cannot possibly eat it all all at once!) half was "Thigh High by the Fourth of July. the other half was "ankle...

)

Pistolenschutze · 07-08-2007, 10:06 AM

Polish, the day you posted this thread I checked my zukes to see if any had produced squash yet. Lo and behold, I had several already about 5 inches long. Now there are blossoms all over the plants and the bees have been busy pollenating them! Is it possible to drown in zuchini?

The tomatos are also doing well, though I almost lost a couple of plants. Those two seem to be coming back quite well now, and there are ripening tomatos all over them. We plan to can quite a few this year if the harvest is good. My wife uses canned tomatos for a lot of the dishes she prepares. The strawberry plants have taken over the planters they're in and now want to spread out to the ground below. Today the backyard, tomorrow the world! The okra is growing well, but I've not yet seen any pods. I sure hope that stuff comes through because I love fried okra.

AL MOUNT · 07-08-2007, 10:35 AM

Fried for me is pretty much of a NO-NO.....

Anybody got any favorite basting recipies for grilling them.?

I tried mixing cooking sherry & Ms. Butterworths syrup.....

...... not too good...

Pistolenschutze · 07-08-2007, 11:51 AM

Here's one you might try, Al. It's for baked zuke.

BAKED STUFFED ZUCCHINI

1 lg. zucchini (or 3 small, if you like.)
1 lb. hamburger
1 chopped green pepper
1 chopped onion
Pulp of zucchini that was scooped from shell, chopped
1 can tomato paste (not sauce, paste holds mixture together)
Salt & pepper
Oregano (opt.)

Slice zucchini in half length-ways. Scoop out pulp leaving a shell. Parboil shell in water 8 to 10 minutes, then drain. Brown hamburger, peppers, onion and cut up zucchini pulp. (If there's liquid, drain.) Add tomato paste. Fill shells with mixture. Place on foil covered cookie sheet and bake at 350 degrees about 45 minutes. If you like, sprinkle with grated cheese when you remove it from oven.

berto64 · 07-08-2007, 02:09 PM

Al,

Have you looked into olive oil or Canola oil? If I fry anything it is in those oils. Heart healthy & mono saturate oils.

Havoc · 07-08-2007, 02:24 PM

OK! What's up with all the Zucchini posts?! I haven't been keeping up with everyone lately, but I'd swear I've been reading more about Zucchini in the last couple days than I have my whole life!!

Never had the urge before now to go to the store just to buy Zucchini.

SouthernMoss · 07-08-2007, 04:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Havoc

Never had the urge before now to go to the store just to buy Zucchini.

BUY zucchini????

Just let your friends and neighbors know you're interested; you'll have zucchini coming out your ears within days!

Cucumbers too. Around here, seems like EVERYONE has cukes to give away.

rsm · 07-08-2007, 05:01 PM

Here is my favorite Zuchini reciepe.
Marinate Zuchini in Jim Bean
Throw away Zuchini
Drink marinate

Tuttle · 07-08-2007, 09:23 PM

Here is an idea for you Mike,

Throw them up in the air and shoot at them with your tRusty model 97

polishshooter · 07-08-2007, 10:20 PM

That might come to that Tut....

Maybe I can glue feathers on them this fall and pretend I'm in South Dakota or somewhere exotic shooting Pheasant....

Actually my wife does something with them on the grill I'll have to ask her what, but they are pretty good...

My Mom's recipe for the Brown Sugar Zuchini is pretty simple, just boil them up until really soft, ( She always warns me to be careful not to use TOO much water, they kind of "add their own" to the pot, so it can boil over quickly, but you have to add just enough, too much also makes it kind of soupy, but it's STILL good if you mess up...

) drain, add a dollup of butter and mix in a couple of tablespoons of brown sugar...I could eat the whole pot, and HAVE

clmanges · 07-09-2007, 09:47 AM

To my mind, the only reason to eat zucchini would be as revenge against them for their evil ways.

If you want to make money off of them, set up a little range in your back yard and charge people to shoot them. They will pay, and grin really big. With four or five plants, you won't run out of targets, either.

polishshooter · 07-09-2007, 10:39 PM

I asked my wife about the grill thing she does with them, she says she just slices up the zuchini on a piece of aluminum foil with the edges kinda rolled up, with some yelllow squash slices and then slices up a red onion, stirs it together, drizzles it generously with olive oil, then sprinkles Italian Seasoning on it and lets it grill on low while shes cooking something else on the other side of the grill...

It's pretty good!

JohnK3 · 07-10-2007, 08:55 AM

If you use olive oil, make sure you use the "Extra Light" olive oil. Higher smoke-point and still has all the health-benefits of regular olive oil. Save the darker olive oil for non-fried situations.

Crpdeth · 07-10-2007, 01:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rsm

Here is my favorite Zuchini reciepe.
Marinate Zuchini in Jim Bean
Throw away Zuchini
Drink marinate

No Dr Pepper?

WarSteed · 07-10-2007, 05:40 PM

Ooohhhhh my mom likes to make some Korean pon-chan (those little side dishes Koreans and Japanese like to eat with rice) with them. She slices them into thin round slices and seasons cooks them.

Man.... i'm a total carnivore but i could eat just that and rice ALL DAY it's so good.

glocknut · 07-10-2007, 07:03 PM

Zuchini bread was awsome....

mike
gn

obxned · 07-11-2007, 01:39 AM

I hope and pray that there is some gobermint program to pay you NOT to grow them!

therockrt72 · 07-11-2007, 12:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by polishshooter

My GOODNESS, I FIRST picked a couple of nice ones last Sunday, my wife fried them up nicely, then I last picked a couple of nice young ones Thursday that I boiled up last night, there were only a couple of 1 or 2 inchers on the plants after those...

TODAY? I picked Three more nice ones, one about 12 inches, and I now have about 25 SHOWING between 1 inch and about 3 inches....

I figure by NEXT weekend we will be SICK of Zuchini, and the NEXT week begging neighbors to take them!

Good thing my wife likes to grate them up and freeze them to make her Zuchini Bread around the holidays....but I THINK she's going to be busy grating SOON....

Anybody got any good Zuchini recipes?

Anybody want any Zuchini?

BOY am I glad I only put in 12 plants and two of them died.....

Now if the TOMATOES would just hurry it up a little I'd be in HEAVEN....

you have to try them grilled with a little olive oil. almost as good as frying them but a hell of a lot healthier.

bluesea112 · 07-15-2007, 03:45 AM

With all the rain we have had in Texas, I am up to my ears in Zuchini, Okra, Cucumbers, and Corn. As crazy as it sounds, the only plants NOT doing well are my watermelons. You would think watermelons would thrive in conditions that call for an Ark. Very strange.
I own a KOA campground, so I started selling my surplus of vegetables in my general store. That seemed to solve my over abundance problem with everything but Okra. That stuff grows so fast! I had so much of it that I decided to introduce it into a multitude of recipes. Sometimes it blended well, but other times it did not. One of my mistakes was trying to put in salsa. I didn't have time to chop it by hand, so I had the great idea to put it in the blender and push the "chop" button (one of the slowest settings on the blender). WARNING: DO NOT PUT OKRA IN THE BLENDER. It turns into snot and will make you gag when you touch it.
I have decided to stop picking it to see if it will stop growing fruit; similar to tomato plants. I guess I will soon find out.

polishshooter · 07-16-2007, 08:54 AM

The other day my wife tried the simplest of recipes and it was GREAT...

Slice two young Zukes (it DOES get tiring spelling out "Zuchini!

) in half lengthwise, lay them on some foil next to where you are going to put the ribeyes on the hot grill

Drizzle them with olive oil, sprinkle with Italian Seasoning, flip once...done about the same time as the rare steaks, about a couple of minutes a side... DELICIOUS...

And they make a NICE presentation on the plate too, next to the RARE ribeyes....

07-07-2007, 02:03 PM	#1
polishshooter Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Indiana Contributor Posts: 7,863	Is there any money in Zuchini Farmin'? My GOODNESS, I FIRST picked a couple of nice ones last Sunday, my wife fried them up nicely, then I last picked a couple of nice young ones Thursday that I boiled up last night, there were only a couple of 1 or 2 inchers on the plants after those... TODAY? I picked Three more nice ones, one about 12 inches, and I now have about 25 SHOWING between 1 inch and about 3 inches.... I figure by NEXT weekend we will be SICK of Zuchini, and the NEXT week begging neighbors to take them! Good thing my wife likes to grate them up and freeze them to make her Zuchini Bread around the holidays....but I THINK she's going to be busy grating SOON.... Anybody got any good Zuchini recipes? Anybody want any Zuchini? BOY am I glad I only put in 12 plants and two of them died..... Now if the TOMATOES would just hurry it up a little I'd be in HEAVEN.... __________________ The problems we face today are there because the people who work for a living are outnumbered by those who vote for a living. --> Last edited by polishshooter; 07-07-2007 at 02:06 PM..

07-07-2007, 09:42 PM	#3
Bruce FLinch Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Bay Point, Kali..aka Gun Point Posts: 5,016	Re: Is there any money in Zuchini Farmin'? Now Polish, Didn't you ask about planting Zukes earlier this spring? or was that Pistol?? I believe I advised someone 3-4 plants would be enough. Now, soon all your friends & neighbors will be locking their doors @ night so that the "Zucchini Fairy" can't visit! __________________ A bad day @ the Range, is better than a good day @ work.

07-07-2007, 09:49 PM	#4
apache36 Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Salem IN Posts: 32	Re: Is there any money in Zuchini Farmin'? good thing he's talking about Zuchini, i was beginning to get concerned. __________________ Click to check us out

07-08-2007, 08:58 AM	#5
polishshooter Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Indiana Contributor Posts: 7,863	Re: Is there any money in Zuchini Farmin'? Yeah, Bruce, I've been here before, but I didn't put a garden in at all last year, and for two years prior my Zuchini just didn't cut it, I'm lucky with 6 plants to have gotten a total of 8 or 10 of them before the plants all withered and died in the hot weather of late summer, not matter how much I watered, so we were always disappointed lately... I usualy only planted a couple of plants and the rest seeds though.... But THIS year I fertilized the heck out of it before I tilled, then put the Zuchini plants in the TOP of the garden not the bottom where I always put them for 20 years or so, where I USUALLY put the Tomatoes, put the Tomatoes where the Corn usually went in the middle, and the corn at the bottom....with two rows of cayenne and jalapenos between the corn and the 'maters for my wife's "salsa...".... And it was touch and go, I put it in late, right at the START of the 3or 4 week week drought, had to water every night...lost the two Zuchini plants, and the rest looked "peeked" for WEEKS, like on the edge of giving up the ghost...lost ALL the pepper plants, but I know about half of the japs WOULD have lived if the RABBITS didn't like young jalapeno pepper plants so much! Lost about half of the 'maters too...but I always "overplant them" too just in case and only about HALF my corn came up! Then we had our first good soaking rain about 3 weeks or so after I planted, and suddenly everything just took off! I even replanted the corn that didn't come up and EVERY ONE is now coming up too! I'll have TWO crops this year if the young ones finish before the SNOW , (which I always wanted to do anyway but never did, so I don't get inundated also by GREAT corn that we cannot possibly eat it all all at once!) half was "Thigh High by the Fourth of July. the other half was "ankle... ) __________________ The problems we face today are there because the people who work for a living are outnumbered by those who vote for a living.

07-08-2007, 10:06 AM	#6
Pistolenschutze Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Colorado Posts: 13,094	Re: Is there any money in Zuchini Farmin'? Polish, the day you posted this thread I checked my zukes to see if any had produced squash yet. Lo and behold, I had several already about 5 inches long. Now there are blossoms all over the plants and the bees have been busy pollenating them! Is it possible to drown in zuchini? The tomatos are also doing well, though I almost lost a couple of plants. Those two seem to be coming back quite well now, and there are ripening tomatos all over them. We plan to can quite a few this year if the harvest is good. My wife uses canned tomatos for a lot of the dishes she prepares. The strawberry plants have taken over the planters they're in and now want to spread out to the ground below. Today the backyard, tomorrow the world! The okra is growing well, but I've not yet seen any pods. I sure hope that stuff comes through because I love fried okra. __________________ --Pistolenschutze (Pistol Shooter)

07-08-2007, 10:35 AM	#7
AL MOUNT Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Cleaning my Thompson in The Foothills of the Ozark Mountains Posts: 3,108	Re: Is there any money in Zuchini Farmin'? Fried for me is pretty much of a NO-NO..... Anybody got any favorite basting recipies for grilling them.? I tried mixing cooking sherry & Ms. Butterworths syrup........... not too good... __________________ 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment 101st Airborne Division Vietnam 67-68

07-08-2007, 11:51 AM	#8
Pistolenschutze Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Colorado Posts: 13,094	Re: Is there any money in Zuchini Farmin'? Here's one you might try, Al. It's for baked zuke. BAKED STUFFED ZUCCHINI 1 lg. zucchini (or 3 small, if you like.) 1 lb. hamburger 1 chopped green pepper 1 chopped onion Pulp of zucchini that was scooped from shell, chopped 1 can tomato paste (not sauce, paste holds mixture together) Salt & pepper Oregano (opt.) Slice zucchini in half length-ways. Scoop out pulp leaving a shell. Parboil shell in water 8 to 10 minutes, then drain. Brown hamburger, peppers, onion and cut up zucchini pulp. (If there's liquid, drain.) Add tomato paste. Fill shells with mixture. Place on foil covered cookie sheet and bake at 350 degrees about 45 minutes. If you like, sprinkle with grated cheese when you remove it from oven. __________________ --Pistolenschutze (Pistol Shooter)

07-08-2007, 02:09 PM	#9
berto64 VMBB Admin Staff Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Owyhee County, Idaho Contributor Posts: 7,388	Re: Is there any money in Zuchini Farmin'? Al, Have you looked into olive oil or Canola oil? If I fry anything it is in those oils. Heart healthy & mono saturate oils. __________________ Be who you are & say what you will, Those that matter won't mind and those that mind don't matter. I'm a bitter clinger, One Nation Under God.

07-08-2007, 02:24 PM	#10
Havoc V.I.P. Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Maryland Posts: 100	Re: Is there any money in Zuchini Farmin'? OK! What's up with all the Zucchini posts?! I haven't been keeping up with everyone lately, but I'd swear I've been reading more about Zucchini in the last couple days than I have my whole life!! Never had the urge before now to go to the store just to buy Zucchini.

07-08-2007, 05:01 PM	#12
rsm Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Georgia Posts: 9	Re: Is there any money in Zuchini Farmin'? Here is my favorite Zuchini reciepe. Marinate Zuchini in Jim Bean Throw away Zuchini Drink marinate

07-08-2007, 09:23 PM	#13
Tuttle V.I.P. Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Lewisville Texas Posts: 145	Re: Is there any money in Zuchini Farmin'? Here is an idea for you Mike, Throw them up in the air and shoot at them with your tRusty model 97 __________________ reply at your own risk

07-08-2007, 10:20 PM	#14
polishshooter Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Indiana Contributor Posts: 7,863	Re: Is there any money in Zuchini Farmin'? That might come to that Tut.... Maybe I can glue feathers on them this fall and pretend I'm in South Dakota or somewhere exotic shooting Pheasant.... Actually my wife does something with them on the grill I'll have to ask her what, but they are pretty good... My Mom's recipe for the Brown Sugar Zuchini is pretty simple, just boil them up until really soft, ( She always warns me to be careful not to use TOO much water, they kind of "add their own" to the pot, so it can boil over quickly, but you have to add just enough, too much also makes it kind of soupy, but it's STILL good if you mess up... ) drain, add a dollup of butter and mix in a couple of tablespoons of brown sugar...I could eat the whole pot, and HAVE __________________ The problems we face today are there because the people who work for a living are outnumbered by those who vote for a living.

07-09-2007, 09:47 AM	#15
clmanges V.I.P. Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: NE Ohio Posts: 203	Re: Is there any money in Zuchini Farmin'? To my mind, the only reason to eat zucchini would be as revenge against them for their evil ways. If you want to make money off of them, set up a little range in your back yard and charge people to shoot them. They will pay, and grin really big. With four or five plants, you won't run out of targets, either. __________________ Happiness is a warm gun

07-09-2007, 10:39 PM	#16
polishshooter Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Indiana Contributor Posts: 7,863	Re: Is there any money in Zuchini Farmin'? I asked my wife about the grill thing she does with them, she says she just slices up the zuchini on a piece of aluminum foil with the edges kinda rolled up, with some yelllow squash slices and then slices up a red onion, stirs it together, drizzles it generously with olive oil, then sprinkles Italian Seasoning on it and lets it grill on low while shes cooking something else on the other side of the grill... It's pretty good! __________________ The problems we face today are there because the people who work for a living are outnumbered by those who vote for a living.

07-10-2007, 08:55 AM	#17
JohnK3 Advanced Senior Member Join Date: May 2003 Posts: 1,636	Re: Is there any money in Zuchini Farmin'? If you use olive oil, make sure you use the "Extra Light" olive oil. Higher smoke-point and still has all the health-benefits of regular olive oil. Save the darker olive oil for non-fried situations.

07-10-2007, 05:40 PM	#19
WarSteed V.I.P. Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 188	Re: Is there any money in Zuchini Farmin'? Ooohhhhh my mom likes to make some Korean pon-chan (those little side dishes Koreans and Japanese like to eat with rice) with them. She slices them into thin round slices and seasons cooks them. Man.... i'm a total carnivore but i could eat just that and rice ALL DAY it's so good.

07-10-2007, 07:03 PM	#20
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07-11-2007, 01:39 AM	#21
obxned Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 1,342	Re: Is there any money in Zuchini Farmin'? I hope and pray that there is some gobermint program to pay you NOT to grow them! __________________ Proud member of a North Carolina Committee of Safety "If we loose Freedom here, there's no place to escape to. This is the Last Stand on Earth!" Ronald Reagan

07-15-2007, 03:45 AM	#23
bluesea112 Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: West, TX Contributor Posts: 1,257	Re: Is there any money in Zuchini Farmin'? With all the rain we have had in Texas, I am up to my ears in Zuchini, Okra, Cucumbers, and Corn. As crazy as it sounds, the only plants NOT doing well are my watermelons. You would think watermelons would thrive in conditions that call for an Ark. Very strange. I own a KOA campground, so I started selling my surplus of vegetables in my general store. That seemed to solve my over abundance problem with everything but Okra. That stuff grows so fast! I had so much of it that I decided to introduce it into a multitude of recipes. Sometimes it blended well, but other times it did not. One of my mistakes was trying to put in salsa. I didn't have time to chop it by hand, so I had the great idea to put it in the blender and push the "chop" button (one of the slowest settings on the blender). WARNING: DO NOT PUT OKRA IN THE BLENDER. It turns into snot and will make you gag when you touch it. I have decided to stop picking it to see if it will stop growing fruit; similar to tomato plants. I guess I will soon find out.

07-16-2007, 08:54 AM	#24
polishshooter Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Indiana Contributor Posts: 7,863	Re: Is there any money in Zuchini Farmin'? The other day my wife tried the simplest of recipes and it was GREAT... Slice two young Zukes (it DOES get tiring spelling out "Zuchini! ) in half lengthwise, lay them on some foil next to where you are going to put the ribeyes on the hot grill Drizzle them with olive oil, sprinkle with Italian Seasoning, flip once...done about the same time as the rare steaks, about a couple of minutes a side... DELICIOUS... And they make a NICE presentation on the plate too, next to the RARE ribeyes.... __________________ The problems we face today are there because the people who work for a living are outnumbered by those who vote for a living.