Pickles by Brian Crane for October 16, 2024

That’s an infestation

Hyperactive gardener. Maybe Earl will train Roscoe to reduce the size of her zucchini patch.

I’d take all three. I love zucchini!

hello, Dominos!

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Crankshaft® must have paid them a …… visit!!!

;-)

The kitchen apocalypse.

I’d go out for my meals until the fridge no longer had zucchini.

I like zucchini, too, but not THAT much…

Put most of them in the Compost heap that’s where they’re going to end up anyway

you can always tell a man with no friends—he’s buying zucchini at the grocery!

In our area there’s an old saying: “If you have no zucchini you have no friends."I tried a compact zucchini this year: “Space Miser". The fruits were as thick as my thumb and about 5” long. Chopped up well into carrot sized rounds so great for stir fries/tomato dishes. The overgrown ones were thick as your fist and still short as your hand. Saves a lot of zucchini angst.

Squash Omelet ? IDTS

Looks like Opal has been gardening of late!

Grilled, breaded and fried or zucchini bread please.

Spouse steamed some zucchini last night: Sliced into 5mm rounds, tossed with some rosemary and thyme and steamed in a basket for several minutes. Served w/ a bit of butter.

Not bad, but not knock-you-down delicious either

It’s obvious, you should make pickles out of them. If they still persist, graduate to courgette quiche, then zucchini pie.

Spouse steamed some zucchini last night: Sliced into 5mm rounds, tossed with some rosemary and thyme and steamed in a basket for several minutes. Served w/ a bit of butter.

Not bad, but not knock-you-down delicious either. I prefer stir-fried w\ onion and some spιces.

Crankshaft’s other growing plot?

Roscoe, guess what’s for dinner!

“Some zucchini ice cream, maybe.”

My lone zucchini plant produced 30+ loaves of bread and numerous side dishes of fried zucchini plus gave many to neighbors !

Mom used to make zucchini bread… it was the only way she could get us kids to ingest the stuff we considered as loathsome and “ucky.” Apparently some tastes change when you get older… love the stuff now.

Coming soon to a theatre or streaming, ‘Attack of the Killer Zucchini!’.

The Pickle’s Home is now Zucchini House.

Zucchini doesn’t have enough flavor to love or hate. But it does go well with a lot of different recipes.

Yuck

Earl needs to squash those options

My wife put the zucchini plants on pots this year, it really reduced the excess.

Every year it’s the SAME thing……… they can’t GIVE that stuff away.!!!!

In college there was a guy in our dorm who had an Italian sounding name. Everyone just called him “Zucchini”

Much as I like zucchini, I don’t think I like it THAT much! Good thing my wife, the gardener, doesn’t grow any. She barely tolerates it!

Against the law in Pennsylvania to possess more than one

I’m astonished how lazy that man is, sitting in his easy chair with his TV table, turning down offered food. Wait until Opal’s no longer around, Earl; you’ll be one of the helpless ones.

How about a pumpkin spice/ham omelette?

Why do people plant so much zucchini in the first place, if it’s always so prolific ? How about donating it to the local food pantry.

Opal, you forgot zucchini noodles.

Zucchini is what I got

I said remember that

Zucchini is what I got

(I got, I got, I got)

—Nowell / Wilson / Gaugh / Roberts

That’s a lot of zucchini.

One year my mom planted ten zucchini plants. That was the year she tried to feed me zucchini bread covered with zucchini butter and zucchini jelly. Also that year my job was to sneak around the neighborhood about dusk and leave grocery bags of zucchini on porches.

Do a “Gallagher” & find new ways to destroy’em! Fun!

I wonder if Brian Crane lives in Utah. When I lived in Idaho, we used to joke about leaving baskets, boxes, and bags of zucchini on the doorsteps of family, friends, and neighbors.

I once made an entire meal for friends where every item- from the soup to the main course to dessert contained zucchini. One of my dinner guests was so amused, she bought me a zucchini cookbook. If every recipe in the (slim) cookbook is used once, it will use 93 pounds of zucchini. The relish is very good; the dill pickles are not!

Ummm, where is she going to get the eggs for the omelet?

When first planting a vegetable garden, we had no idea, and planted a 6-pak of zucchini. We had to resort to putting them on porches, ringing the bell and running like crazy.

Pretty much the truth in my gardening days, till beets ….

Zucchini is great as long as it’s cooked in a dessert bar with lots of chocolate chips.

“Knock yourself out, honey! As for me, I’m sending out for pizza.”

need two things, a trash bin and a trip to the market

Shouldn’t there at least be some eggs in there if omelets were an option?

CHOCOLATE ZUCCHINI CAKE

my wife said she picked up a bunch of zucchini yesterday. I said (sarcastically) oh goody! She saved the day by saying she’s gonna bake a bunch of zucchini bread… whew!… (I still think she’s gonna squeeze some of it on an upcoming dinner plate, tho… lol!)

Fry it up. Pass it over. I’ll swallow it down.

I almost always have zucchini bread in the house to have with my coffee for an afternoon snack.

I learned the hard way. Only plant one zucchini plant. Same goes for summer squash.

No thanks, I’ll have the courgettes.

At least they won’t go hungry

Smile, Earl. It could be okra or asparagus.

That is why you never plant zucchini. And hope none of your neighbors do either

Opal, you were meant to sneak them onto neighbors porches back on 8 August!

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: One zucchini plant can feed an entire neighborhood. Whether they want it or not.

Lame zucchini jokes are more prevalent than zucchinis are.