Zuke Alors

When life gives you too many zucchini, make these recipes

Gardeners know that high summer means an insane amount of summer squash. I’ll deal with some cucumber ideas in another post (check out the cucumber sandwich one if you haven’t yet), but today is all about cucumbers’ cucurbitaceous cousins. I love a simple sautéed summer squash (I made it in Maine earlier this week) and I’ll walk you through it down below. But I want to talk about this fabulous soup, too, because it’s kind of the perfect illustration of ingredient-driven cooking that uses just a couple of pantry staples and ends up stealing the show no matter what you serve it with.

So to help you handle this seasonal surfeit, I’ve got two recipes today that will dispatch your surplus squash and leave you smiling at the incredible effort-to-pleasure ratio that both these dishes embody.