Zucchini anyone??

We have our 3rd seasonal garden in full bloom.  Although, it looks more like an untamed bushy forest than a meticulously kept, weed-free piece of fertile land (clearly the meticulous farming genes from my Dad didn't trickle down to me)  But despite the way it looks we are quite fruitful in cherry tomatoes, slicing tomatoes, jalapenos, bell peppers, scalloped & watermelon squash and zucchini.  

As I said in an earlier post, mice got the better of us earlier in the planting season and we didn't have half the plants that we had originally started with.  We won't be pickling cucumbers this season--kind of disappointing because our 2nd season of pickled cukes turned out so good, unlike the first learning experience of pickling crappy pickles.

We have had a plethora of zucchini to say the least...so back in June (yeah, this post may or may not be 2 months old) I was busy chopping, shredding, dehydrating, freezing zucchini to my little heart's desire.

Basically preparing for the harsh winter that is to come...pshtt yeah right!

Our fabulous wedding gift from our cousins - a dehydrator

Ready to make some salt & vinegar zuchini chips

Sucky!!  After 12 hours of use (2 batches) the thing caught on fire...WTH?!?!