Appetizers
Crab, Corn & Avocado Cocktails
Beverages
Banana & Apple Zucchini Smoothie (from Incredible Smoothies)
Zucchini-tini (I know, but just check it out for fun. From NOLA.com)
Tropical Smoothie (peach, strawberry, coconut & mango)
Breads
Blueberry Zucchini Bread (from Closet Cooking)
Fresh Zucchini Muffins (from Health.com)
Zucchini Current Scones (from Food 52)
Zucchini Bread (from 101 Cookbooks)
Chocolate Zucchini Bread (from Closet Cooking)
Breakfast
Out of this world granola bars
Roasted Apple, Cherry & Chocolate Chunk Scones
Nut Butters (Roasted Hazelnut Brown Butter Butter/Roasted Pecan & Sweet Swirl Molasses Butter/Roasted Cashew Maple Butter/Sweet Cashew Cream)
Blueberry Zucchini Bread (from Closet Cooking)
Soft Polenta w/ Zucchini & Poached Egg (From Food 52)
Fresh Zucchini Muffins (from Health.com)
Eggs Florentine (from Emeril Lagasse, Jacques Pepin and Gourmet)
Arugula and Bacon quiche (from Bon Appetit)
Tropical Smoothie (peach, strawberry, coconut & mango)
Chocolate
Dark Chocolate Zucchini Cupcakes (from An Oregon Cottage)
Chocolate Zucchini Bread (from Closet Cooking)
Chocolate Zucchini Rum Cake (from Food 52)
Dark Chocolate Zucchini Brownies (from Weekly Greens)
Earth Balls (from The Whole Foods Market Cookbook)
Devil’s Food Cake with Chocolate Sour Cream Frosting
Single Malted Milk Chocolate Balls
Chicken
Wonton Cups filled w/ Asian Spiced Chicken
Let’s bronze a bird! Roast Chicken
Desserts
Salted Dark Chocolate Espresso Cookies
Roasted Apple, Cherry & Chocolate Chunk Scones
Pumpkin Bread Pudding with Sweet Cream Bourbon Sauce
Gingery Spiced Cake with Sour Cherries & a Sour Cherry Glaze
Almond Lemon Yogurt Cake w/ Lemon Syrup & Glaze
Single Malted Milk Chocolate Balls
Sweet Zucchini Custard Pie (from Happy Valley Locavore)
Dark Chocolate Zucchini Cupcakes (from An Oregon Cottage)
Chocolate Zucchini Rum Cake (from Food 52)
Dark Chocolate Zucchini Brownies (from Weekly Greens)
Zucchini Nut Bread Cookie Sandwiches (from Martha Stewart)
Zucchini Bundt Cake w/ Orange Glaze (from Martha Stewart)
Blueberry, Raspberry, Blackberry Crisp
Raspberry and Coconut Crumb Bars (adapted from Smitten Kitchen)
Tropical Smoothie (peach, strawberry, coconut & mango)
Earth Balls (from The Whole Foods Market Cookbook)
Devil’s Food Cake with Chocolate Sour Cream Frosting
Grains
Zucchini Rice Gratin (from Smitten Kitchen)
Swiss Chard Farro Rolls with Roasted Red Pepper, Goat’s Cheese and Tomato Sauce
Asparagus, Chickpeas and Brown Rice with Lemon Tahini Dressing (from Weekly Greens)
The Best Lentil Salad, Ever (from My New Roots)
Super Sprouts – Magic Mung Beans
Meat
Zucchini Chili (from Happy Valley Locavore)
Miscellaneous
Tomatoe Powder (from My Earth Garden) or here (from You Grow Girl)
Searching for the Best Arugula Pesto Recipe, Making Arugula Pesto Cream Cheese Spread, and Discovering Arugula Pesto Pizza (from In My Kitchen Garden)
Pasta
Raw Zucchini Pesto Pasta (from Elle’s New England Kitchen)
Zucchini Strand Spaghetti (from Smitten Kitchen)
Farm Stand Stuffed Zucchini Squash (from Running with Tweezers)
Corn Macaroni with Asparagus, Fava Beans and Arugula Pesto (from vegalicious)
Penne with Turkey, Arugula, and Sun-Dried-Tomato Vinaigrette (from Food & Wine)
Salads
Julia Child; The Vinaigrette.Greek-Style Zucchini Salad (from Closet Cooking)
Roasted Beet and Blood Orange Salad with Spicy Greens Recipe (from 101 Cookbooks)
The Best Lentil Salad, Ever (from My New Roots)
Seafood
Miso happy! Halibut in Miso Broth
Shrimp and Zucchini Barley Risotto (from Health.com)
Crab, Corn & Avocado Cocktails
Side Dishes
Twice-Baked Sweet Potatoes with Bacon-Sesame Brittle
Zucchini Ribbons (from Food 52)
Zucchini Rice Gratin (from Smitten Kitchen)
Zucchini & Ricotta Galette (from Smitten Kitchen)
Summer Squash Lattice Tart (from Martha Stewart)
Kolokithopita; Greek Zucchini Pie (from Closet Cooking)
Zucchini Oven Chips (from Health.com)
Parmesan Crusted Baked Zucchini Sticks w/ Marinara Sauce (from Closet Cooking)
Zucchini Frites w/ Lemon Basil Mayonnaise (from Food 52)
Mediterranean Stuffed Zucchini (from Healthy Fellow)
Quick Zucchini Pickles (from 101 Cookbooks)
Zucchini, Tomatillo & Ancho Chili Chutney (from Food 52)
The Best Lentil Salad, Ever (from My New Roots)
Super Sprouts – Magic Mung Beans
Snacks
Out of this world granola bars
Zucchini Oven Chips (from Health.com)
Parmesan Crusted Baked Zucchini Sticks w/ Marinara Sauce (from Closet Cooking)
Zucchini Frites w/ Lemon Basil Mayonnaise (from Food 52)
Zucchini Quesadillas (from Martha Sterwart)
Zucchini Current Scones (from Food 52)
Sriracha, Lime Zest & Parmesan Popcorn
Tropical Smoothie (peach, strawberry, coconut & mango)
Earth Balls (from The Whole Foods Market Cookbook)
Soup
Roasted Red Pepper Soup w/ Goat’s Cheese Medallions
Roasted Carrot & Sweet Curry Soup
Roast Zucchini Soup with Stilton (from SixCourseDinner.com)
Spinach and Zucchini Soup (from 101 Cookbooks)
Zucchini Nut Bread Cookie Sandwiches (from Martha Stewart)
Vegetarian
Roasted Red Pepper Soup w/ Goat’s Cheese Medallions
Chickpea Crépes with Tomato, Chèvre, Corn, & Avocado
Nut Butters (Roasted Hazelnut Brown Butter Butter/Roasted Pecan & Sweet Swirl Molasses Butter/Roasted Cashew Maple Butter/Sweet Cashew Cream)
Tomato, Chard & Gruyere Casserole
Zucchini (A million ways to see it, cook it, make it, love it.)
- Herbed Zucchini & Feta Quiche with a Brown Rice Crust (from Closet Cooking)
- Zucchini Goat Cheese Frittatas w/ Smoked Trout (from Food52)
- Zucchini Fritters (from Smitten Kitchen)
- Zucchini Latkes (from Smitten Kitchen)
- Zucchini Ham & Ricotta Fritters (from Smitten Kitchen)
- Grilled Zucchini with Parmesan Pesto (from Health.com)
- Grilled Zucchini Roll-Ups With Herbs and Cheese (from Health.com)
- Zucchini Ribbons (from Food 52)
- Zucchini Rice Gratin (from Smitten Kitchen)
- Zucchini & Ricotta Galette (from Smitten Kitchen)
- Summer Squash Lattice Tart (from Martha Stewart)
- Kolokithopita; Greek Zucchini Pie (from Closet Cooking)
- Zucchini Oven Chips (from Health.com)
- Parmesan Crusted Baked Zucchini Sticks w/ Marinara Sauce (from Closet Cooking)
- Zucchini Frites w/ Lemon Basil Mayonnaise (from Food 52)
- Mediterranean Stuffed Zucchini (from Healthy Fellow)
- Farm Stand Stuffed Zucchini Squash (from Running with Tweezers)
- Zucchini Quesadillas (from Martha Sterwart)
- Quick Zucchini Pickles (from 101 Cookbooks)
- Zucchini, Tomatillo & Ancho Chili Chutney (from Food 52)
- Zucchini Ricotta Cheesecake (from 101 Cookbooks)
Swiss Chard Farro Rolls with Roasted Red Pepper, Goat’s Cheese and Tomato Sauce
Asparagus, Chickpeas and Brown Rice with Lemon Tahini Dressing (from Weekly Greens)
Roasted acorn squash and gorgonzola pizza topped with arugula (from Smitten Kitchen)
Meatless Monday: Roasted Beet and Arugula Sandwich with Green Olive Tapenade (from Whole Living)
The Best Lentil Salad, Ever (from My New Roots)
Shelley Sackier 
Shelley,
Are you sure you didn’t teach at the CIA in a previous life? If you only would have told me, I could have accomplished my apprenticeship under you and saved $85,000. Escoffier would be pissed that you have accomplish a three star rating before he could.
Keep cooking!
Stosh 🙂
I think Escoffier would be rolling in his grave if he had to eat his way through much of this. In fact, it’s likely food like this put him there in the first place.
If you are what you eat, I think you’d be a zucchini. I’d be chocolate. Zucchini Ricotta Cheesecake, really? I’ll reserve judgment… 🙂
Ha! Okay, I suppose looking somewhat reminiscent to a long, green member of the vegetable kingdom is a step up from the other alternative, which would be peat–a giant lump of decomposing, decaying vegetation. Yes, a much brighter image, thank you.
I sense a zucchini invasion from your garden…am I correct?
Funny enough (funny enough to make me cry), I seem to be the only person on the face of the earth who cannot grow zucchini. But I take everyone else’s surpluses off their hands. Folks just put them on the side of the road at the end of their driveways with a sign that says, “Free to a good home.” I shamefully, but giddily oblige.
I have never seen the word “zucchini” mentioned this many times in one document. There’s something going on here. You do realize you can cook without it too, right?
LOVE your blog. I’m excited to try some of these recipes! You’ve got a new follower!
Ha! Yes, that was one hellish summer where we had zukes right up to our earballs. Learned my lesson from that one.
Thanks so much for reading, and I sincerely hope you’ve not gone off that particular veg. Cheers to you! 😉
I M IN LOVE WID FOOD 🙂
GOOD TO FIND YOU
So glad to have been found! I hope my food might prove worthy of your stomach. Cheers to you!
🙂
This is quite the treasure trove. I became a vegetarian about nine months ago, so I’m always on the lookout for good meatless dinner ideas. Next time I’m home and have access to a kitchen, I’ll have to come back here for some inspiration. By the way, pesto is one of the things I’ve learned to make from scratch since going veg, and it has never occurred to me to get creative and substitute the traditional pine nuts with pecans (or any other type of nut).
Oh yes, creativity in the most wonky of ways is a character trait I try to develop to the point of absurdity. Here’s why: As a writer one tends to attend the lectures of anyone who’s had success on the path before them. I heard Bruce Coville at a conference a few years ago. He said, “When looking for the direction of where your story should head, write down the first twenty things that come into your mind as possibilities. Then crumple up the paper and start over. Number twenty-one is what you should probably go with. It’ll be fresh and unexplored.”
So that’s always been my theme. Don’t do anything “regular.”
🙂
Glad you found some of the recipes enticing. I hope they’ll prove tasty too!
Very good all!
My kids would beg to differ.
They will thank me one day …
(in a parallel universe far, far away.)
Yes, yes.
I love it all but some of the foods have meat;I am VEGETARIAN.
Sometimes it’s tricky to feed my family, Ava, as I’ve got one child who loves meat and one who refuses to eat anything that used to have a face.
I have to make lots of vegetarian meals, and I LOOOVE vegetables. Especially covered in chocolate.
Okay, I’m only kidding.
I like them only dipped in chocolate. 😀
ARE YOU VEGETERIAN?
Not entirely. I’m a big fan of fish. I grew up on a lake and used to go catch fish for breakfast! But lots and lots of my meals are vegetarian. I gobble up bucketfulls of beans and I have a big vegetable and fruit garden that I grow every spring and summer. I plant 1/3rd for the birds, 1/3rd for the deer and 1/3rd for me (and Haggis, my dog. He eats a lot of my tomatoes and nearly all of my blackberries. But he’s got lovely fruity breath so I’m okay with it.)
Me to so I am pescaterian
That, Ava, is a killer word for an 8 yr old. I’m thinking you’d be pretty awesome in a spelling B. 😛
thanks
you can email me and we can both chat together
I did email you and your mom last week – did you happen to get it?
yes