[Sca-cooks] OOP-OT Squash

[Dragon]

Lilinah wrote:
>chawkswrth at aol.com wrote:
>>  One can only describe the Zuc as...log-like.
>
>Back in the mid-70s few friends and I lived in a house in LA that 
>had a zucchini vine that was very very productive. We had some 
>honkin' HUGE zukes.
>
>When they got really large (and log-like), they were not 
>particularly pleasant to eat. We tried hollowing them out, chopping 
>up the flesh, and mixing it with other proteinaceous substances, 
>cheese, and seasonings and baking them. I'd say they made nice 
>serving dishes, but the flesh wasn't worth eating.
>
>It's best to eat 'em young and comparatively petit :-)
>--
>Urtatim (that's err-tah-TEEM)
>the persona formerly known as Anahita
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Yeah, definitely harvest and eat young.

They are not worth anything when they get huge, except as compost or 
maybe pig feed (but who has pigs these days?).

Dragon

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