Sneaky zucchini

Zucchini has always struck me as some kind of mystical vegetable.  It has a way of magically appearing in the break room at work, hanging in bags on strangers front doors, and even finagling its way into birthday gift bags.  A check of the garden in the morning yields nothing, but by the time the evening sets in, a zucchini the size of a VW Beetle has miraculously appeared.  The guiles of the zucchini are limitless.

The inexperienced gardener, such as myself, is often tricked into planting several zucchini plants.  The instructions on the packet of seeds directs you to plant two to three seeds per hill.  What the seed packet does not state is that every seed you plant WILL grow into a plant.  In my situation, I planted four hills with three seeds in each hill.  That is a total of twelve zucchini plants.  And, I have learned that every plant will produce approximately (this is a rough estimate) one million pounds of zucchini. 

The problem then becomes what, exactly, to do with 12 million pounds of zucchini.  So far, we have grilled it, sauteed it, baked it into muffins, and fried it.  Soon we will be experimenting with options such as stuffing it and baking it, making "hash browns" (squash browns?), and using it as lasanga noodles.  Perhaps I could use it to build a log cabin. The possibilities are endless!