Had to show you these rhubarb syrup ice cubes because the colour is just so pretty and because I want Shelia to be able to let her kids have rhubarb "pop" this winter too. ;-0 Wouldn't it be a lovely Christmas drink - a little bit of Summer in the wintertime?
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How funny - Max told me tonight to freeze the juice! Everyone loves the stuff! I might have to plant more rhubarb.
And...today I made 8 loaves plus one giant 9"X12" pan of chocolate zucchini cake after seeing your recipe. I have all this zucchini sitting around, but while it used a dozen eggs it only used 2 zucchinis! Ack! Two of them gave me 12 cups of zucchini.
Good cake by the way.
That's a lot of cake! But, if you have room to try one more these zucchini brownies will make your kids look at zucchini in a whole new light.
http://ahandmadelife.blogspot.com/2008/08/yum.html
Or if you can get the cookbook Simply in Season from your library it is full of great recipes. I love the one for their zucchini tart. Can't wait til my own zucchini is ready.
http://fourfriendsandablog.blogspot.com/2008/08/tomato-zucchini-tartsort-of.html
Last year I asked on here for some zucchini recipes to help use up mine and someone sent me this one.
http://fourfriendsandablog.blogspot.com/2007/08/thanks-lisa.html
I'll look for it. Thanks for the suggestions. My theory is that I will freeze a lot of cake for later.
Have you ever grown this kind of zucchini? It's called Ronde de Nice. Grows into balls of zucchini. I really like zucchini but Max is taking some time to get over his irrational dislike (how can you not like such a bland vegetable?). But once the balls get big they kind of get away from you...it's the one plant I tell new gardeners to grow: it's so prolific it makes you feel like a heroically fine gardener.
What a great idea for rhubarb syrup. Absolutely, rhubarb is great anytime, and especially when we miss it over the winter.
Shelia - I just googled Ronde de Nice zucchini images, not as nice as some of the other images I've googled at your suggestion but still...pretty nice. ;-) I like the photo of one of them used to serve soup. I'll have to try some of those next year. I did try a different kind last year (some sort of patty pan) but I found if you left them on the vine even a day too long the outer skin got kind of tough - more like a spaghetti squash almost. Are yours like that?
Yes, they are a little on the hard side, but only if you don't use them right away. I feel bad saying this, but I don't think I'll grow them again. They are awkward to grate, to chop, and you really have to get them early or they are ALL seed. Mind you, I think that could be said for any zucchini. And these are wonderfully prolific. I just have to stay on top of them.
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