Ididnt even use garlic and it was amazingly good...
For your mutant zucchini...
one way of doing it is as - Lydia bastianivich woudl say -- an Involtini.. or a roll up
when I've done them i've kinda fudged a recipe but it's tomatoes, mushroooms (cuz I like them), onions, garlic, and rice and an assortment of italian herbs (add meat if you like), then the zucchini is cut into long strips and the rice mixture is put inside and rolled up- and coverd wieth tomato sauce and some cheese if you like and baked - it's kinda like an italian baked stuffed cabbage....
Something else with your zucchini, not sure if you've done it - but when cut it - -get rid of the seeds, it will make whatever you do less waterey and you'll have more zucchini flavor..
Just even a simple stew (and this has an italian name that I cannot remember) of zucchini, garlic, onions, eggplant, and tomatoes - throw it all ina crock pot or dutch oven and let cook for a while..
My vocabulary came back.. ratatouille is the dish i was thinking of...