Dealing With Extra Zucchini

In my old neighborhood, we only locked our doors during zucchini season. Waves of the vegetables would arrive at our doorstep, sent by those who were too sick of them to eat any more. No matter how many stir-fries, fritters, pizzas and tamales we threw them at, the zucchini kept coming … like a crowd of hungry zombies. The relationship between man and zucchini can get so adversarial that the concept “know your enemy,” from Sun Tzu’s The Art of War , becomes apropos. If you hope to weather a sustained zucchini attack, it helps to understand your foe. So here are four burning questions about zucchini, followed by my answers, that will help you use and appreciate a crop that, as we speak, is taking over gardens across the Northern Hemisphere/ Ari Levaux , Inlander. More here .

Question: How do you get rid of your extra zucchini? And/or: Are you still on speaking terms with gardening neighbors who try to give you their extra zucchini?