Do you have ideas for summer squash

[locks]

I saute cut-up zucchini, yellow crookneck, or any summer squash, celery, thyme, green onions, green bell pepper, and garlic. Make a white sauce with sharp cheese. Mix all, add sliced almonds and cut-up fresh tomatoes. Top with seasoned bread crumbs. Bake for at 350 for 30 min. or until topping is browned.

[LuckyLib]

1. Yum! Here's one with zucchini:

California Zucchini Bake

1 pound lean ground beef
3 medium zucchini, thinly sliced
1/4 c. sliced green onion with tops
2 t. salt
1/4 t. garlic powder
2 t. chili powder
1 (7 oz.) can green chiles, chopped
3 c. cooked rice
1 c. sour cream
2 c. shredded Monterrey Jack cheese
1 large tomato, sliced
salt, pepper

Saute beef, zucchini, onion, salt, garlic powder and chili powder in lightly greased skillet until meat is cooked and vegetables are tender crisp. Stir frequently. Add green chiles, rice, sour cream and 1 c. cheese. Turn into greased shallow 2 quart casserole. Arrange tomato clices on top. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Top with remaining cheese. Bake at 350 degrees, 20-25 minutes. Makes 6-8 servings.

[noamnety]

2. You can use long thin strips of it like lasagna

http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Zucchini-Lasagna-51191410

or do one of my personal favorites - season slices of it in creative ways and dehydrate it to death to make chips. You can season it with plain salt, or lemon and ginger, or soy sauce, just about anything that feels right. It's a nice option because you can shrink it down to almost nothing for storage space if you dehydrate it.

[grasswire]

3. I used to make a mexican skillet dish...

....with hamburger, chopped onion, red bell pepper, zucchini, corn, black beans, and chopped tomatoes. Lots of chili powder. Brown the meat first, then add the other ingredients except the tomatoes, and saute til the zucchini is done.

Serve with pickled jalapenos and sour cream, and cornbread. Very simple, but satisfying. satisfying. I like skillet meals.

[eridani]

4. Ratatouille is always good

Uses up other summer bumper crops also. Pickling is easy and gets rid of a lot of them.

[eridani]

5. A few ideas from a poet

The Attack of the Squash People

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/attack-of-the-squash-people/

And thus the people every year
in the valley of humid July
did sacrifice themselves
to the long green phallic god
and eat and eat and eat.
They're coming, they're on us,
the long striped gourds, the silky
babies, the hairy adolescents,
the lumpy vast adults
like the trunks of green elephants.
Recite fifty zucchini recipes!

Zucchini tempura; creamed soup;
sauté with olive oil and cumin,
tomatoes, onion; frittata;
casserole of lamb; baked
topped with cheese; marinated;
stuffed; stewed; driven
through the heart like a stake.

Get rid of old friends: they too
have gardens and full trunks.
Look for newcomers: befriend
them in the post office, unload
on them and run. Stop tourists
in the street. Take truckloads
to Boston. Give to your Red Cross.
Beg on the highway: please
take my zucchini, I have a crippled
mother at home with heartburn.

Sneak out before dawn to drop
them in other people's gardens,
in baby buggies at churchdoors.
Shot, smuggling zucchini into
mailboxes, a federal offense.

With a suave reptilian glitter
you bask among your raspy
fronds sudden and huge as
alligators. You give and give
too much, like summer days
limp with heat, thunderstorms
bursting their bags on our heads,
as we salt and freeze and pickle
for the too little to come.

Marge Piercy

[locks]

8. It's the ole zany zucchini game

My friends go into work early and put bags on all the workers' desks and also on their own. Even when they bring in Poirot and tell him he is to find who brought in the bags of truffles he throws up his hands and mutters Mon Dieu, ce ne sont pas de truffes!

[japple]

12. I LOVE Marge Piercy. Have read all of her fiction. She is a very good writer, but

had not read her poetry. Great ideas in that poem, and funny, too. Thanks for posting this!

[japple]

6. Saute onions, garlic, bell peppers a bit, then add thinly sliced squash or zucchini and a tsp or so

Italian or Greek herbs (basil, oregano, etc.) salt, pepper. Yum, yum. That's it. Delicious.

Saute onions, garlic, bell peppers a bit, then add thinly sliced squash and add chili powder, cumin, epazote to taste.

Saute onions and garlic, add cumin & garam masala, then throw in the thinly sliced squash. Another big YUM.

I know there are other ways to make squash, but I usually make one of the above variations to suit whatever menu. Also, the Greek/Italian method added to pasta salad with tomatoes, broccoli and other steamed veggies is awesome.

My squashes always run out before I've used up all of my recipes.

[japple]

7. I also make zucchini relish using the same recipes as for pickle relish.

Bread & Butter Zucchini pickles are every bit as good as those using cucumbers and maybe better. I made some dill pickles out of big ass zukes cut in spears several weeks ago, but haven't yet opened a jar.

[Luminous Animal]

9. It's summer so I like it raw. Thinly sliced with a vinaigrette, some fresh basil or mint...

a good hard cheese, shaved, and some cherry tomatoes.

[Paella]

10. Prosciutto and squash pasta

Wow, hi, my first post.

This is a dish I have seen prepared on TV. I made some adjustments.
Slice young zucchini finely, saute with garlic, Prosciutto (I substituted with smoked tofu) , salt and pepper (or red pepper flakes) to taste.
Add pasta with some cooking liquid, stir. Sprinkle with cheese of choice before serving.

[locks]

11. Hi Paella Welcome!

You have a wonderful name. I first had paella in Costa Rica with clams fresh from the ocean, loved it of course. Also in Barcelona, with shrimp and chichen, different but delicious.

Thanks for the recipe. Yesterday as I panfried some breaded eggplant I added some zucchini; it was good but not so good for my health as your pasta with tofu would be!