Zucchini

At first my zucchini did not want to cooperate.  All the plants died on me.  My mother-in-law had bought me two zucchini plants for the garden and it worked out well.  I ended up replanting some zucchini seeds because I wanted more than two plants.

When it was time to get everything in the ground, I ended up with seven zucchini plants. 

They got bigger and the blossoms came! 

Now we have a couple growing.  We lost the first two blossoms.  A zucchini started growing and then turned yellow and died.  From what, I have no idea.  I was contemplating putting hay underneath the plants so they are not lying directly on the ground, but then I decided not to.  We finally had the first one get big enough to harvest!! 

 I sent Ary out to pick her first zucchini.  Linus came over and wanted to help.

 They were really excited to pick the zucchini and be able to hold it.

Onto the murder of the zucchini, ha! 

Okay, no gory scene here.  I had enough gore this week with my foot!  I turned our first zucchini into zucchini cakes.  They taste very good.  I ended up eating all but two of them.  Shame on me!

I ran out of time when I was cooking them because had to run drop Ary off and then had a meeting at the church, so when I took this, they were cold......... still good but they are definitely better warm.  Next time I think I will cook them in the oven for a couple minutes to get a nice crisp on the sides as well.