I usually find zucchini pretty bland and boring, so when my girlfriend Heather generously unloads her vegetable garden on me every summer, I have to find ways to make it more exciting. Peeling it into ribbons and discarding the seeds makes it less watery, and also creates more surface area for the sauce to coat, almost like a pasta.

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computational astrophysicist and open science devotee. I work for Giant Army. As Staff Astrophysicist and Developer on Universe Sandbox 2. An N-body physics simulator sandbox game currently available on Steam. Prior to that I was working for the Department of Statistics at Columbia University studying open coding, open data, big data management, and statistical issues of reproducibility in the sciences. A major focus was a project called ResearchCompendia.