cocozelle zuchinni squash

today i picked 3 cocozelle zuchinni squash from the garden i have at my sisters house. i brought them home and cooked them with some red potatoes i had picked from my garden a few days earlier, and also made some jasmine rice with saffron to go with it. overall it turned out to be extremely delicious, and i have to say that cocozelle zuchinni will now be a required item in every garden i grow for as long as i live. mostly, in size and shape, it looks just like a regular zuchinni, but the color is much different in that they are much lighter than a regular zuchinni variety, and have stripes extending from one tip to the other. the flesh is crisp like a zuchinni, but the flavor seems more like that of crookneck squash. its not a bold flavor and its not a weak flavor, but its more just kind of there, and its really accentuated quite well with pepper, olive oil, and marsala cooking wine. overall i have to give this vegetable a 10 out of 10, and i know that i will be growing it every year regardless of how much space is available.
as a side note, some of my flour corn varieties seem to be finishing off for the year. the painted mountain is pretty much done, and im just waiting for the husks to dry out and for the ears to fall over. at that point they should be ready to take in for indoor drying, and in about a month theyll be ready to grind for flour. i intend to use the flour for tortillas and cornbread. the other varieties are some hopi types and anasazi. im impressed at the size of the ears on these, as they are longer than my forearm. im hoping to get a high yield of usable grains off of these. the giant pumpkin, the last one i have, seems like it cant make up its mind whether its going to ripen or get larger. the other two were eaten by ants and mice, and one of those had been my biggest hope for a prize pumpkin. that didnt work out though.

the watermelons are doing fine, but they are a little misshapen from the ground they were sitting on. the cantaloupes now have netting all over their skin, and im just waiting for them to finish off. at home, the pickling cucumbers are nearly done, which is good becaus the dill's seedhead should be formed about the time theyre ready to be pickled. the sweet corn is also advancing, should be done soon. the tomatoes seem to be weak and drying out on the bottom of the plants, but the tops are dark green and look very healthy. still waiting on most of the peppers to decide whether they will set fruit or not. might just have to wait till next year.