What to do with all the garden fresh zucchini?

Who has the time or the money to dine out every night? Cooking at home has never been this chic. What do you wow the eaters in your house with? The Junior League of Salt Lake City wants to know! Please share with us your original, delicious recipes to eat@jlslc.org. We are working to create a cookbook that will feed your family and become a favorite in your collection.

The following is a recipe from the League's third cookbook Always In Season. I made this last night because I've been looking for something to make with all the zucchini out of my garden. One can only bake so much zucchini bread. Not only was this simple but it was a treat for my taste buds.

Park City Penne With Zucchini Cream

Serves 4

4 medium zucchini, cut into 1/8 inch slices

1 medium onion, thinly sliced

1 clove of garlic, minced

1/4 cup butter

1 1/4 cup whipping cream

1/2 cup milk

2/3 pound uncooked penne

1/2 cup sun dried tomatoes

3/4 cup shredded fresh basil

3/4 cup grated parmesan cheese

Heat butter in saucepan. Saute onion and garlic until onion is tender. Add zucchini and saute for one minute. Stir in whipping cream and milk, simmer for one minute.

Cook penne according to package instrutions, drain. Combine pasta, zucchini cream sauce, sun dried tomatoes, basil, and cheese. Cook until just heated through.

Serve immediately, garnish with more parmesan cheese if desired.

A little fresh ground black pepper never hurts either.

YUM!

Please I need more ideas for what to do with all my zucchini next year! Submit your favorite zucchini recipe today.

Cooking from Scratch

With so many fresh ingredients available in our grocery stores now, the use of canned goods can seem like a thing of the past. However, we are all short on time and cooking at home can be an excellent way to watch pennies. Cans of tomatoes or beans will always have a place in our pantry; the same goes for frozen peas or spinach in our freezer. There are some great time-saving ingredients that aren't "fresh" from the farm that have a place in our best recipes. Cooking from scratch can be so fun and inventive, and a lot of fantastic recipes include some of these time-savers and out-of-season fillers. Do you have a recipe that includes some of these things? We'd love to include them in our fourth cookbook. Share them at eat@jlslc.org

Utah's Own!

We are in the heart of Utah's bounty with corn, peppers, squash, greens, tomatoes, berries and peaches filling the farmstands. What do you most look forward to cooking this time of year? If you are using your garden to dictate what's on the table, please share the recipes with us! Eat@jlslc.org is taking your original favorites and trying them all! Your garden is helping to fund the projects the JLSLC is dedicated to doing.

What's For Dinner?

The Junior League of Salt Lake City wants to know what you are cooking for dinner? If it is an original delight your family enjoys, please share the recipe with us! We are looking for everything from cocktails to desserts, entrees to salads, sides and starches. Do you have a crowd pleaser that you're famous for? Get your name in print and submit your original recipe to eat@jlslc.org. All contributors will be mentioned in the book that's debuting in the spring of 2012! We can't wait to hear what's cooking Salt Lake!

Recipe Call Out

That's right - we're asking you! We need your assistance in getting this answer. We are asking for a wide-range of wonderful dishes that includes appetizers to desserts and everything in between - even cocktails. Do not hesitate to be a part of this amazing project.

What can you do? Start flipping through those recipe files, go look in your garden and tell us what really knocked your socks off at last weeks gathering. We hope you'll pick out your favorites and share them with us. Our fourth book will focus on recipes using fresh ingredients; if they happen to highlight a local ingredient, even better. Imagine what appetizing recipe you might make after a trip the the farmer's market or your favorite grocery store. We want the recipes you love serving to your family and friends. Think wholesome,fresh, simple, elegant and outside the (cardboard) box as much as possible! If you have an original recipe that has not been previously published- we want it! Recipe submission is open to the public so be sure to tell your family and friends so that they too can be a part of the newest and freshest Junior League cookbook.

The money raised from the sales of current and future Junior League cookbooks support our projects which focus on improving the lives of women and children in our community. In return for your recipes the Junior League of Salt Lake will be able to continue working to improve the lives in our community.

Recipes can be submitted via email, fax or mail. If you've got a great recipe, we'll find a way to accept it.

Cookbook Contact Information:
eat@jlslc.org

New Cookbook, Junior League of Salt Lake City
526 E 300 S, Salt Lake City, UT 84102

fax (801) 328-1048