Head for the Hills!

The zucchini are coming! The zucchini are coming! Yesterday, I witnessed the first zucchini transfer of the summer, which can only mean it is time to grab the pets/kids and take cover until autumn. Don't get me wrong. I have nothing against zucchini. I like a good breaded fried zucchini with ranch sauce, or steamed with ginger dip, or even zucchini bread, but every summer seems to be plagued by Zucchini Overload. There's something about a zucchini plant that seems to produce bumper crops every year, leading otherwise normal people with backyard gardens to go to great lengths to get rid of the stuff (yet they plant it again the next year). I've known people who have resorted to the Zucchini Drop. This is not a baked good, but rather an insidious technique Zucchinistas use to divest themselves of zucchini by leaving bags of it on random front porches in the dead of night.