I’ve grown my own zucchini for many years but in the past couple of years I’ve cut way back on a big garden with vegetables and now concentrate on growing a wide variety of herbs. That’s OK…it was getting to the point where at this time of year I did not want to see another zucchini!
My plan was foiled though when a guest to an event I hosted brought me a bag of home grown zucchini, just fresh from her garden. I had already received two monster zucchini from a neighbor that I will shred and save in two cup portions to use for zucchini bread in the winter and now needed to devise something different from the same old same old I think can happen when there is a glut of any crop.
This recipe is an oldie but goodie. It comes from a cookbook I love called The Artist in the Kitchen from the St. Louis Art Museum and was a fundraising cookbook published in 1977. I love everything I’ve made from it and this recipe is an all time favorite. Add to that it’s so easy..you will need to try it!
Zucchini and Cream Cheese
Ingredients
- 6-8 small zucchini
- 1 – 3 oz. pkg. cream cheese
- 3 Tbsp butter
- 1/4 tsp garlic powder
- Salt and Pepper to taste
- Butter Crackers
Preparation
- Cut unpeeled zucchini into thin slices and microwave until just tender and still crunchy; 3-4 minutes.
- Drain thoroughly
- Melt cheese and butter and mix with garlic powder and zucchini; season with salt and pepper.
- Put in a baking dish and crumble crackers on top. Bake for 25 minutes at 350 degrees or until golden brown.
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This “oldie but goodie” looks like a fabulous goodie. Another bookmarked.
There isn’t anything wrong with that at all!!!
If I were to pair it I might go for a crisp dry Chardonnay or White Bordeaux.
Might have to try that…
So funny…or maybe not; kind of what I had for dinner the other night. Too tired or too lazy to make anything else, just a serving of this dish and a glass of Chardonnay!
OH! That sounds so great! It looks to die for! Thanks so much!
This looks delicious – just the way I like to eat zucchini! I think my mom makes a version of this for Thanksgiving, and it’s one of my favorites!
What a fabulous dish Barb and so easy too. So rich!!
Oh I bet that is some yummy bubbly goodness!! I can’t wait to give it a try the next time I find that forgotten zucchini in the fridge :)
I bet I could actually get Jeff to eat zucchini if I served it like this. Looks amazing – yet oh yea exceptionally decadent.
Thanks Heather…it is so good. Combined with simple too…so in my mind an almost perfect zucchini dish!
Oh my goodness… this looks terribly decadent. A scoop of this and I’d be done for (in a very good way). :-)