{"id":454,"date":"2020-08-04T13:04:45","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T20:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/?p=454"},"modified":"2020-08-04T13:04:46","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T20:04:46","slug":"the-gift-of-zucchini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/?p=454","title":{"rendered":"The Gift of Zucchini"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Having a neighbour who has a zucchini plant is so commonplace that even referring to it as a clich\u00e9 seems strange, as everyone knows someone who has a zucchini plant. Or, I suppose, everyone knows someone who planted zucchini and ended up with too many to count and had to give them away.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They\u2019re incredibly productive. Personally, I have never actually grown a zucchini plant, but I do have cucumbers out there and I did grow a pumpkin one year, accidentally – that\u2019s poorly-rotted compost for you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m sure there is some sort of a joke about a neighbour with a zucchini plant. I did Google a few, but most were strange puns and had to do with \u2018squash\u2019. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Regardless, the near-perfect specimen above was given to us by a friend. she also gave us a yellow one.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I bet it\u2019ll be amazing. Seriously. I\u2019m going to shred it and mix it with ground turkey and some herbs and spices and make turkey burgers. The recipe is from Jerusalem<\/em> and it is a true family favourite.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is more to this blog post, though. More than a snicker about yet another zucchini. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I remember back to when I used to assist a food photographer. On shoot days we would have a kitchen full of food. When the food stylists shopped they made sure we had enough of every ingredient for any and all eventualities. Often we would be shooting a product – packaging or menu items – and we would have more than enough of that, too. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of every shoot day we would put together a bunch of bags of groceries – for the clients as well as for the assistant (me). The photographer would take his share of the spoils, too. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I remember John, the photographer, commenting on how the perceived value of the gift of food was far beyond its actual value. I am always amazed at the response from people when a gift of food is offered. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even if it is a much-maligned zucchini. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grilled zucchini, zucchini bread\u2026 Those turkey burgers\u2026\u00a0And it\u2019ll taste even better because of the gift, no question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Having a neighbour who has a zucchini plant is so commonplace that even referring to it as a clich\u00e9 seems strange, as everyone knows someone who has a zucchini plant. Or, I suppose, everyone knows someone who planted zucchini and ended up with too many to count and had to give them away.\u00a0 They\u2019re incredibly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,65,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-garden","category-vegetables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":456,"href":"https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions\/456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dontcrowdthepan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}