The Desert Mermaid

One year, when I was in middle school, we made the mistake of planting three zucchini plants. It was insane, a Day Of The Triffids scale plant invasion. We'd pick everything, and the next day find zucchini the size of baseball bats, way too big to miss. We had sauteed zucchini, zucchini bread, zucchini chocolate chip cupcakes (sounds weird, but tastes really good! The zucchini keeps the cake moist), zucchini relish...so much zucchini relish. We just used up the last jar of it a couple of years ago. I'm in my 30s now.