15 Creative Zucchini Recipes That are NOT Bread

From moist muffins to flavorful & fresh dinner ideas to pies & tarts, put that overabundance of garden zucchini to good use with these 15 Creative Zucchini Recipes That are NOT Bread...

I don't know about you all, but my Facebook feed has been filled with friends & family posting pics of their very generous bounties from their home gardens lately. And these homegrown bounties almost always include a ridiculous amount of zucchini with an offer that they also happen to be free to good homes. ;) Now I like a good, garden grown zucchini as much as the next girl, but you can only bake so many loaves of zucchini bread in a month- am I right?

That is why I made it my mission to go out & search for some of the most creative zucchini recipes out there from a few of my favorite food bloggers. My only requirement? No bread recipes. In fact, I went looking for zucchini recipes that were anything but bread recipes.

I gathered up 15 of the most unique & creative zucchini recipes I could find. Everything from moist muffins to flavorful & fresh dinner ideas to pies & tarts. 

So forget the zucchini bread this week, and try one of these tasty zucchini recipes instead...

Fresh Foods Wednesday- July 18, 2012

For this week's Fresh Foods Wednesday, I am sharing with you garden gifts I was fortunate enough to receive this week...

I have been appointed the temporary gardener for my parents' garden while they are away on vacation. My compensation?  Whatever I want to take home from their garden. Yesterday's haul was 3 turnips, 1 summer squash, 1 banana pepper, and a very large cucumber. Yeah, that is a cucumber. Not a zucchini. ;)

I just love the beauty of fresh veggies!

My next door neighbor also stopped by yesterday afternoon to share some of his homegrown tomatoes with us.  I think he is taking pity on me.  He has seen my 3 haggard tomato plants in my raised garden bed.  They are not doing so well.  Which makes me a sad panda.  I am not sure exactly what is going on. I have tested my soil and it is good. I don't over or under water them.  But alas, I have 2 tomato plants with 2 tomatoes each on them, and 1 tomato plant with absolutely nothing on it. Any thoughts on this, readers?

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