The conversation generally went along the lines that Peter and Arlene’s garden was producing a bounty of fresh vegetables – in contrast to our own garden that was producing vegetables but in much smaller quantities.

To my pleasant surprise, Arlene brought along a small bag of some of their garden’s produce for me and prominent in the bag was a large zucchini. On the drive home from the picnic, I was rolling around different ideas in my head about how I would cook the zucchini, considering several different options.

It was just a day or so later that my other friend Angie happened to email me a story about how she had just made a large batch of zucchini soup and she had sent along the recipe in her email. Intrigued and in the mood for a good tasting soup, I decided to cook up a batch of this zucchini soup as it also gave me the opportunity to use some of the garlic that I had just harvested from our garden a few days earlier. In addition to the garlic, fresh basil and oregano from my herb garden were also used and I can definitely say that the whole result was quite extraordinary.

Since Barb is still away on her trip, I think that I’ll probably have about 3-4 days worth of soup for myself.

Not such a bad deal when you think about it.

You can find the recipe for zucchini soup here.

Baden