How come I have so many zucchini's when my plants did not fruit?

I was shopping at my local health food store, getting real peanut butter, just ground up peanuts..yummo!  As I was leaving the lady asked me if I liked zucchini, yes was my response, I was given three lovely dark green zucchinis, not huge but good size and lovely steamed with butter and garlic.  Very nice on the BBQ too.

I was chatting to my neighbour on Monday over our sort of fence, which is mostly blackberries.  She offered me a zucchini, it was the size of a marrow.  But so full of taste. 

We had zucchini fritters with lamb stew and mashed potato and a tomato salsa that night.  All I did was cut the zucchini slices a bit thicker than normal, cut them in half and dip them in a very runny batter made with cornflour, water and yogurt.  Pan fried in oil shallow. (you could I guess deep fry them).Oh and these ones I topped with parmesan cheese after they were cooked.  

Shows the size of the zucchini used.

 I would add cummin next time I think to the batter. They were lovely and crisp on the outside and soft on the in. 

I made 1 zucchini  and walnut cake.  I use pecans though as I am not so keen on walnut. I also ended up with six small cup cakes.  I have enough zucchini to make another cake.  Which I will do tomorrow and freeze it. 

 

This is one of the cupcakes.

We went over to visit this neighbour for a drink this evening and she gave me another large zucchini, so we will have more cake frozen.  I usually do a cream cheese icing on it but it is pretty fine without it too.