Beef Stuffed Zucchini

"Great idea but needs a bit of spicing up."" I too was looking for recipes for extra Zucchini (seems there`s always extra to go around) so tried the ground beef zucchini. Put a twist on a few things though. Some got too large so these seemed just great to us as a dish as scraping out all the big seeds was going to be done anyhow. Baked for 20 min.. Took the time to add some fresh garlic to butter and melted in micro, applied to bread, then put on a cookie sheet to make croutons during the same 20 min. in the oven. Taco mashed the 1/2 #ground beef and added onion (NEVER POWERED), hot pepper flakes, spiced tomato seasoning, garlic, salt and pepper. These were from standard (green summer) zucchini, but it ""looked"" sorta bland too so hurried out and got a summer yellow zucchini, diced, blanched and it added color and extra texture. (Even though the taste was there it was only from the pulp of the original zucchini.) At the last min added the croutons so they didn`t get soggy and dusted with what I had- Parmesan cheese- broiled and served. Might sound complicated but took 1/2 hour and that`s enough for 2---- tonight and tomorrow night. Thx Chuckie_B_Good"