Your recipe calls for 1 1/2 cups shredded zucchini. Shredded zucchini is notoriously fickle when it comes to being weighed.
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Plus I discovered that an 8" zucchini weighs just about 8 ounces so if you don't have a scale but you do have a garden, you can simply take your ruler out to the garden, harvest an 8" zuke, then measure off however many ounces you need – by the inch!Ģ. This is about the size zucchini I like to use at 8", it's not yet dry and mealy or pithy inside, as it would be in another few weeks. Pick your zucchinis before they reach baseball bat-size. What you really need when that happens is tips on using all that zucchini to its best advantage – plus a few good new zucchini recipes.ġ. Woe be the gardener who doesn't stay on top of the zucchini harvest, for s/he shall quickly regret that day back in April when the seeds of the apocalypse were sown! Zucchinis go from manageable cuke-sized veggies to veritable deadly weapons – long as your forearm, and twice as fat – seemingly over the course of a week or less. Round about mid-summer, zucchinis take over your garden – just like the gift fruitcakes from various elderly relatives and business associates gather under the tree at Christmas.
And thus, the butt of many a snarky joke. And, since zucchini is technically a fruit (not a vegetable), they share that trait.īut honestly, their predominant shared characteristic is this: they're both much maligned for their ubiquity at certain seasons of the year. Well, they're both edible – according to many. What do zucchinis and fruitcake have in common?
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