Spaghetti Sauce

[Harlan Huckleby]

An "Out Magazine/Golden Press Book"? This is a fake book that somebody made on internet. Pretty funny idea, but why make it a gay thing?

[3irty1]

IMO zucchini is best grilled. Zucchini is one of the summeriest vegetables and grilling is easily the summeriest method of cooking. Zuckes are great sauted, roasted, fried, etc of course but in the peak of their season when its 90 degrees who wants to turn on their oven or stove top? My all time favorite zuke recipe is something like this:

Grilled Vegetable Bruschetta

1 medium zucchini
1 medium yellow squash
between 1 and 3 carrots depending on size
1 clove of garlic crushed
S+P
bit of grapeseed oil
4 plum tomatoes, diced
chiffonade of like 8 basil leaves
extra virgin olive oil
baguette, sliced, drizzled with olive oil and toasted

Cut first three vegetables on a bias to get like 1/2" thick grillable slabs on squash and 3/8" on carrots as the squash will shrink more. Grind garlic into paste by sprinkling with coarse salt and working against the cutting board with the side of a knife. Marinate zuke, squash, and carrot slabs with garlic, salt, pepper, and grape seed oil for around 45 minutes. You can just use more olive oil here but I don't trust you not to take it past the smoke point on your grill. The salt should draw some water out of the squash and make it possible to get some char on the veggies without turning them into mush. Grill the stuff until marked but not until mushy or black. Carrots will take a bit longer but you still would like to preserve some of their carrot texture. Set grilled vegetables in a bowl and place in the fridge. Don't cover it. When cold, dice vegetables, toss with fresh diced tomatoes and fresh basil, drizzle with olive oil, spoon it on the toast, and put it in your mouth.

This of course assumes that any of your zucchini flowers survived the tempura you made a few weeks earlier long enough to become zucchini fruit.

[Upnorth]

31 want to know how I cheat at grilling vege's. Little bit of seasame oil in italian dressing, drop of vanilla, toss the vege in mixture, grill and volia! As a purist does that offend you? The seasame oil gives the "what's your recipe" from aroma, the vanila is pschological warfare (makes the brain release endocrine (happy brain juice))

[GrnBay007]

That recipe sounds really good 31! And I never knew this ........ "Grind garlic into paste by sprinkling with coarse salt and working against the cutting board with the side of a knife". I love garlic and now have another way to use it...lol

[3irty1]

31 want to know how I cheat at grilling vege's. Little bit of seasame oil in italian dressing, drop of vanilla, toss the vege in mixture, grill and volia! As a purist does that offend you? The seasame oil gives the "what's your recipe" from aroma, the vanila is pschological warfare (makes the brain release endocrine (happy brain juice))

All that is hard to imagine on the palate but if the results aren't offensive I'm not offended.

[Upnorth]

You know what's really bad in spagetti sauce? About 2 tbls of celery salt. The lid came as I was shaking just a touch on, oops!