Zucchini seems to be growing hot and heavy everywhere you look. I guess due to all the rain everyone has been getting. No matter who I talk to they all seem to have alot and sometimes are at a lose as to what to do with it all.
Over the years I acquired a taste for it myself. While I was growing up I couldn't stand them, (kinda like the avocado's we were overwhelmed with 2 trees) but believe me I have learned to love it. I have eaten sauteed with onions, mixed with tomatoes, had a zucchini cheese bake, of course the always sneaky zucchini bread (I have alot of different recipe's and you would never no it is inside the bread) cookies well you get it the list it goes on and on.
The other day it again must have been a slow news day because one of our local areas had a zucchini derby. What you may ask? For all of you who have had sons in boy scouts you can relate. Scouts wasn't without its yearly Pinewood Derby. But yes they had a race apparently the 4th annual of its kind. They decorated there zucchini's and raced them down a hot wheels strip. Strange you might think but apparently loads of fun if you have nothing to do. Seems like a waste of a good item but I guess if in doubt, race them..
The one thing the Pinewood Derby keeps the memories forever and the zucchini derby doesn't is that, the memories of my son and husband making it together. They worked long and hard on the little car, painted, whittled, weighted in just the right place, put cute stickers all over it and proudly ran it down that track. If my mind serves me I think they came in second place. Another plus is that car is a part of his memory box. I rather doubt that the top winners in the zucchini run will be able to preserve their winner.
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