The CookingBites recipe challenge: courgette/zucchini

[Morning Glory]

Welcome to the CookingBites recipe challenge. The current challenge ingredient is courgette/zucchini and The Late Night Gourmet is our judge. To enter, all you need to do is post a recipe which contains courgettes, tag it cookingbites recipe challenge, and post a link to it in this thread. The winner becomes the judge for the next challenge. Deadline: midnight, end of day, Tuesday, 12th August, UK time (GMT). Detailed challenge rules can be found here.

 

[TastyReuben]

I’ve already got one queued up and ready to go, I made it a few weeks ago. I’ll get it posted sometime today.

 

[The Late Night Gourmet]

Deadline: midnight, end of day, Tuesday, 12th August, UK time (GMT).

I didn't set the date, but I like it: this is my 30th wedding anniversary, and I plan to make some of the entries after that date. We'll be spending the first 11 days of August in Cancun, so I can't make anything until then (unless I have time before that).

 

[kaneohegirlinaz]

My Kind Of Zucchini/Courgette Bread

I like the bigger chunks of the veg & nut in there, sliced, toasted and heavily slathered with Salted Butter!
For one of our Community's Bake Sales, I made even smaller loaves and sold out in less than an hour, well, I did have samples that helped to move the product along nicely but this is very tasty.

 

[kaneohegirlinaz]

Grilled Zucchini/Courgette

Remember, a recipe is simply someone else's idea, take it make it your own, with different seasonings!
I served this Grilled Zucchini/Courgette along side some Grilled Chicken and Couscous, YUM-O!!!

 

[TastyReuben]

My first one (of a planned two):

Recipe - Vegetarian Taco Casserole

No pics this time around, as I'd made this a few weeks ago.

We both liked this quite a bit. Neither of us care too much for zucchini, but I thought I'd give this a try for an easy meatless weeknight meal, and it surprised us both with how good it was. I'll definitely be making this again.

Easy to customize, too...just use what you have on hand or what looks good at the market that day.

 

[TastyReuben]

We've got a zucchini festival next month, just up the road an hour or so:

Home - Obetz Zucchinifest

 

[medtran49]

Recipe - Zucchini terrine

 

[TastyReuben]

Recipe - Zucchini terrine

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Very pretty!

 

[vernplum]

Recipe - Confit Biyaldi

 

[Morning Glory]

I thought maybe I would go retro and spiralise some courgettes for a dish. Sadly (or perhaps fortuitously) I couldn't find the spiraliser anywhere. Its a very long time since I used it

 

[Morning Glory]

Great response so far! We are only 3 (2, strictly speaking) days into the challenge and we have 5 entries from 4 members. We could be heading for a glut... !

 

[msmofet]

I have a recipe but no picture.

 

[TastyReuben]

We could be heading for a glut... !

As would befit zucchini, the rabbits of the vegetable world.

I was watching some unrelated video on YT a few weeks ago, some nostalgia BS about how life was better in <pick your favorite decade>, and one of the things they mentioned was that (paraphrasing) “People were so much friendlier and more neighborly - it wasn’t unusual to find your gardening neighbors had left you a basket of zucchinis outside your door!” - all I could think of was, “They were off-loading them, not being friendly!”

I don’t know if zucchini has that reputation anywhere else, but around here, it’s jokingly considered that ultra-prolific vegetable you sneak-force onto others, because if you grow any, you’re probably drowning in them at some point.

 

[Morning Glory]

As would befit zucchini, the rabbits of the vegetable world.

I was watching some unrelated video on YT a few weeks ago, some nostalgia BS about how life was better in <pick your favorite decade>, and one of the things they mentioned was that (paraphrasing) “People were so much friendlier and more neighborly - it wasn’t unusual to find your gardening neighbors had left you a basket of zucchinis outside your door!” - all I could think of was, “They were off-loading them, not being friendly!”

I don’t know if zucchini has that reputation anywhere else, but around here, it’s jokingly considered that ultra-prolific vegetable you sneak-force onto others, because if you grow any, you’re probably drowning in them at some point.

Yeah. Same here.