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July 16, 2008
Zucchini Envy
I walked into the office this morning to find that one of my co-workers who has a huge garden had given Danny California two huge, giagantic zucchinis. For us he has turnip greens, which are wonderful, but with as much as I've been stuffing squash, zucchini, eggplant and portabella mushrooms lately, I really wanted some giant zucchini.
"I've known you for ten years, Jerry, and you bring me no zucchini?"
"He was here first. First come, first serve."
No zucchini for me.
I know what you're thinking. But sometimes, a zucchini is just a zucchini. No matter how big.
Posted by april at July 16, 2008 9:45 AM
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Last summer a coworker brought me in THE BIGGEST eggplants I've ever seen. I've been walking around trying to find some common household item that I can compare the size to. Perhaps this isn't the best object to compare food to, but pickup a full roll of toilet paper and imaging the top end elongated to the more narrow end of an eggplant. That's how big around the bases of these things were. It was tough to use up one in a single recipe. I wish I had thought to weigh one.
Along those lines, the year prior we grew tomatoes that were shaped more like miniature pumpkins. Got a coffee maker? Pick up the carafe in your hand and imagine it only half as tall. That was about the diameter of these babies.
And the year before that we were renting a place located on the same land, subdivided, as a cemetary. Tombstones marked graves 40 feet from our doorstep. I should probably credit those deceased with fertilization, because we grew basil that was not only over three feet tall, it had BARK on the base of the stem.
There's something oddly appealing about big vegetables, isn’t there?
Posted by: Jessica at July 16, 2008 4:12 PM
Hi April, I love your site and have been reading it almost since it's inception. (Sorry I'm just now saying hi!)
I'm surprised you've never mentioned the acai berry on here, it's the #1 superfood in the world and has an ORAC score 15 times higher than blueberries! I'd appreciate if you'd look at my information on it here and let me know what you think, thanks!
http://www.mymonavie.com/woodrow82/
Posted by: woodrow at July 17, 2008 8:59 AM
hmmm, i also just learned that it has 30 times the good stuff of red wine (not the resveratrol, the antioxidants) What do you and the Red One think of Acai?
Posted by: woodrow at July 17, 2008 8:44 PM
Woodrow - I know april is a busy girl, so just trying to help out here:
from what Michael has said on the mailing lists: http://www.calorierestriction.org/archive/read.php?2,147103,147103#msg-147103 it seems he thinks the whole anti-oxidant health boom is pretty bunk.
Posted by: Chuck Franklin at July 18, 2008 10:29 PM
Hi, thanks for the reply. Was definitely surprised by that post, i get his point but I have to say i don't agree. I will continue to eat my blueberries and wash them down with acai or wine. lol. :)
Posted by: woodrow at July 21, 2008 4:57 AM
My fiance and I just started doing CRON about 2 weeks ago and your blog has helped us immensely! And speaking of zucchini, Iron Chef America had it as their special ingredient and Bobby Flay made a "pasta" dish using zucchini and squash instead of spaghetti. It looked delicious and was definitely a more CRON friendly dish than actual pasta.
Posted by: Kristen at July 22, 2008 3:04 PM
But no woman can make me believe that the size of the zucchini matters when the tip of the tongue is all the length needed really, when wanted. It's a mythical pathology among men which, when adapted by women, can lead to false conceptions such as the size of the zucchini has anything to do with pleasure. A zucchini is a zucchini, no matter how big. It's boring unless cooked and/or dressed well with spices, garlic yogurt, onions, tomatoes, etc.
z.
Posted by: zeynep at July 22, 2008 6:37 PM