How do you pickle zucs? Like cucumbers?


[QUOTE=Father'sDaughter;653931]And they can get really big as the season goes on, and can become very firm which makes it perfect for pickling and preserving in oil. .[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=Salsacharley;654988]How do you pickle zucs? Like cucumbers?[/QUOTE]



I use this recipe, except I substitute dried basil and oregano for the mint -- [URL]http://www.cookingchanneltv.com/recipes/zucchine-sottolio-zucchini-preserved-in-oil-with-hot-peppers-garlic-and-mint-1970921[/URL]

Addictive and excellent a served up with a slice of good Italian bread and a glass of wine, or as part of an antipasti plate. Traditionally, though, they're served as a side dish with a meal.

You need "baseball bat" zucchini (the ones you didn't around to picking for a few days...) to make them as they need to be dense and with a bit of snap. Tender, young zucchini will just get mushy.

I use a similar recipe for eggplant, and last year I tried it with mushrooms.

The younger zucchini make a good refrigerator pickle. Works really well with a bread-and-butter brine. Great on sandwiches. I cut them lengthwise into long ribbons for this.

I make regular pickles from older squash, cut into medallions, boiling water process, etc.

[QUOTE=imp;654842]Rugosa Friulana is really seriously good tasting.[/QUOTE]

OMG, they're amazing. Sweet, nutty, dense, no chalkiness or grittiness at all. My only complaint is that I'd love to be inundated in them, but I only planted 2, and one got cucurbit yellow vine decline from squash bugs, so I had to pull it. The other is healthy but only setting one squash at a time right now.

I re-sowed to replace the other plant, but they're slow to get going. I think because they're moschatas. Next year, I'll start them much earlier.

[QUOTE=Father'sDaughter;653931]

Where my garlic had been, I just started some seeds for Cocozelle (from Victory) which sound very similar to Striata D'Italia (from Franchi). I want to see if they are really the same with different names.

And I'll have to see what order its flowers arrive in.[/QUOTE]


All four Cocozelle plants are just starting to produce a bunch of male flowers with no females in sight, so I guess things are back to normal.

The two Green Tiger and one Striata D'Italia are still pumping out more zucchini than I know what to do with... what the heck was I thinking when I started four more????


Does Rugosa Friulana grow on a bushy vs vining plant? If a bush, I may need to try it next year.

The Cocozzelle plants have kicked into high gear and are producing giant sized zucchini! If I leave them just one or two days too long, they explode.

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That's one of my cherry tomatoes sitting on top. Great for using in the pickling recipe I posted earlier in this thread.

Whew, glad it wasn't a Brandywine! :twisted:

Honestly, very pretty squash! Glad to hear they are so tasty!

[QUOTE=PhilaGardener;663371]Whew, glad it wasn't a Brandywine! :twisted:

Honestly, very pretty squash! Glad to hear they are so tasty![/QUOTE]


Not a Brandywine, but a bit bigger than your average cherry. My Franchi cherry circa 2012 on the left, a Sweet Million off my neighbor's plant on the right.

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