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Stir fry beef with nectarines! Love cooking with meat with fruit.

Yesterday I cooked pan-seared salmon (with a delicious rub I picked up at Whole Foods), with honey roasted sweet potato cubes sprinkled with cinnamon sugar (leftover from snickerdoodle attempts). Today it's tilapia with squash & zucchini from my CSA!

i have a four foot long squash from a coworker's garden. she says it's similar to zucchini, but sweeter.
she suggested stir frying it with garlic & oil, but i'm not a huge fan of zucchini cooked that way (is limp and watery to me), so was thinking along the lines of a creamy pureed soup with thyme.

anyone have any suggestions?

last night i made the summer corn chowder that was posted last week. i added potatoes and shredded to chicken to make it a little heartier. so good! i'm going to the farmers' market today and will make a salad with whatever i find there for tonight's dinner, topped with grilled chicken.

as for the question about the sweet zucchini: what about using it for zucchini bread?

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Yesterday it sauteed tofu,garlic,onions, and garden fresh diced tomatoes seasoned with chili powder, sweet hungarian paprika, crushed red pepper, cumin salt and pepper accompanied by oven roasted fries and a mixed salad. Tonight it will be some Puerto Rican style yellow rice with strips of red pepper with pink beans and butternut squash and some fried sweet plantain.

I have an equipment question. I was considering buying a Kitchen Aid food processor, mostly for shredding vegetables, mixing dough, and blending. But then I started looking at the VitaMix blender, and people claim that it can do all of that and then some. How does it compare to a food processor and if I had to choose between the two, which one should I go for?

I picked up a bunch of heirloom tomatoes at the farmers' market last week and needed to do something with them quick! I made an Heirloom Tomato Galette with Red Onion Jam in a flaky pie crust. It was so easy!

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