Photo: Eve Fox

This weekend seemed like any other.  It was a peaceful Friday night until my fiance left a message on my voicemail:  “A tornado hit the farm. No word on damage but everyone is ok.”

My future father-in-law still lives on Hedgehog Hill Farm, the homestead he settled with his late wife.  Together they became organic farmers and so much more…raising their only son in rural Central Maine. It is a beautiful place: quiet and serene.   That is…until the tornado hit.

We rushed up Saturday morning to see what we could do but I truly felt helpless as the utility and construction crews cleaned up the 100-year-old trees that dotted the property.  I looked around to see what I could do with my own hands and thought of… THE GARDEN. Would it still be in-tact?

Imagine this: trees down everywhere but the faithful zucchini, cucumber and tomatoes hovered in the corner, somehow spared from the vicious wind.  We took a few home, to remind us of the resilience of this place, and I instantly started thinking about the zucchini.

Whenever I need a recipe with a random ingredient, I go to Eve Fox’s blog “Garden of Eating.” In January 2009, Eve started the “Eat Well Project.”  Eve and her family are members of the Eat Well Farm’s CSA in Northern California and in keeping with her New Years resolution to eat local whenever and wherever, she decided to post a recipe each week featuring the produce she and her family received from their CSA share.

I kept my fingers crossed that she might have received some zucchini this summer…and sure enough, I easily found that fateful zucchini entry. Check it out HERE    Bake some bread….I’m doing it…with the vegetables that survived the storm.