(baked) Fry Rounds

I have always been a "sauce dipper" whether it was bbq sauce, ranch for the carrots, a good old fashioned gravy sopping with a roll or biscuit, but my absolute favorite is ketchup! Lucky for me (or maybe him), Luke was raised a ketchup eater as well, so I fit into his family like... well, like french fries and ketchup! =)

A little bit of history for you: What's the difference between ketchup and catsup???

Help! My counter has been overtaken by the zucchini...

This is the second summer that I have tried my hand at home gardening. It's still a live-and-learn experience, but I have to say that my (not always so very) green thumb and I have come a long ways from the tomato, bell pepper, and squash garden last year. I began my summer with onion, mustard greens, and radishes. My lettuce just recently went "to seed" and yes, it only took one bite for me to completely understand what that phrase means! yuck!! My tomatoes are thriving along with cucumber, bell pepper, corn, butternut squash, and a sprawling watermelon plant. My focus right now, though is zucchini... wow! Again, I am pretty hands off except for the most obvious watering and fertilizing "work" of a garden, but I think that something was done right...

This is a picture from week 1 of "the zucchini", June 2011

Several weeks later, July 2011. Needless to say lesson #2 from this summer is: Never turn your back on a baby zucchini! 

This is just a collection of recipes focusing on using a zucchini in as many ways as possible. Mission: get it off my counter!!