Stuffed Zucchini

"Stuffed zucchini: ground beef, rice and spices combined into perfect filling and baked in hollowed zucchini. Forget zucchini boats, these little zucchini cups are where it’s at! Stuffed zucchini is prepared similarly to other stuffed vebetables such as stuffed peppers and to some extent the dumplings. Today is my father’s birthday. Would have been. He died on New Year’s Day a few years back, which is also mom’s birthday. Earlier in the evening they went to a friend’s restaurant to celebrate the upcoming year. He was especially gregarious. Even earlier in the day, he organized karaoke for his colleagues at the Sarajevo Eye Clinic. His longtime colleague was apprehensive about going into retirement, and she confided in him. “My dear N,” he responded “you’re off to retirement, and I’m off to Vlakovo.” Vlakovo is a cemetery in these parts. "