Zucchini

Tuesday, August 25, 2015

Today I am grateful for zucchini. . .again. Well, folks, we’re almost to that point. You know the one. . .when the zucchini comes in so fast that even the ovens at the White House couldn’t keep up!

I have never made zucchini bread or muffins. Horrors! I think they’ll take my Pennsylvania card away with that statement. We don’t have a garden because I did that in the past and I’m done now. The farmer’s market is my new BFF. And the kindness of strangers. . .and friends. . .who would actually pay me to take some zucchini off of their hands.

So after getting two nice sized beauties from a friend, I decided to go on line and find some recipes for bread and muffins. The bread is a five star recipe from Allrecipes.com, one of my go-to spots. But those silly folks assume I can read. Not their recipe, but my tools for making the recipe.

Last Christmas John got me really great measuring spoons that snap together. Don’t bash him. . .I wanted them! They were on my list. The rascal who made these spoons has never baked in my kitchen or even read a recipe. There is a ½ tablespoon. A half-tablespoon? Never heard of it. Never saw a recipe that called for a half-table-spoon. Don’t even know how to write it. “T” is for tablespoon. “tsp” is for teaspoon. How do you write half tablespoon “HT”? I thought that was for Hat Trick. (Hockey playing kids.)

So when I was mixing up a double vat of the aforementioned zucchini bread, I grabbed the second spoon. . . the one after the tablespoon. . . which is supposed to be the teaspoon. . .and used it to measure the 1 ½ tsp’s of baking powder and baking soda. I mixed it into the six cups of flour to wait until I had the liquids mixed. It was at that point I realized my mistake. Ooooops! Then I put my glasses on. Ha-ha!

To toss out all of that flour. . .or take a chance? It was my biggest dilemma of the day. Aren’t I lucky? Well, I’m a real renaissance gal so I went for it. That’s why each loaf has a strategically placed caved-in-old-man-butt-crack. That half tablespoon gizmo didn’t make the cut. It’s now relegated to an obscure drawer because I guess I’ll never know when I’ll need it otherwise why would they have made it?

The bread will probably taste okay, but the whole works is in the freezer so I won’t know for a little while anyway. Then I’ll blame the freezer. Don’t you just love zucchini? If you have extra you know how to reach me!

csMc