@lovendures OMG. I just spit out my drink laughing. I told my husband what I thought it looked like, a big, flying…………. Seriously? They couldn’t create a different silhouette? Lord help us.
I can't stop laughing at those tippy cups. It turns out Bronze Age people weren't the dour survivalists of popular imagination. Thanks for posting!
I know! Right? I always imagined them in dark windowless hovels, eating dirt filled gruel. Wondering what other toys might be lying around.
So true! I don't think human nature has changed much, in some ways, down through the centuries.
There was probably a class clown named Oog.
Greetings from the intermission between movies at the Cherrybowl Drive In in Honor Michigan. We just finished Jungle Cruise and are waiting for Black Widow. I took the wife and kids and came with another wonderful family with their son.
I spent as much time staring at the beautiful sky as I did at Emily Blunt and the action. I wanted to give everyone some of the perspective I got from the universe tonight.
we got quite a light show - so many shooting stars I ran out of wishes. I did a selfish one for things at work to work out. An end to COVID. I then sent a lot of “light and loves” to this rock as a whole. One for @Unk and his family.
As I continued staring at the blanket of stars above us I just got an overwhelming sense that it’s going to be okay ladies and gentlemen. It’s all going to be okay.
time for Black Widow but I’ll send more shooting star wishes of light and love to all!
As we gather on the rooftop to meet and linger and dance beneath star and moon light, let us remember… “We are more remarkable when we allow ourselves to become the bridge between heaven and earth. It is essential to recognize that we are the earth angels and here to be the beacon of hope in a world that seems to destroy itself.” (quoting a friend)
Not sure why..... but every morning this week I have awoken with Demi Lovato singing in my dream-wake moments. https://youtu.be/WDAd0S92Uko
It doesn't do the lines about "happy for you" It just keeps playing over and over in my mind "stone cold, stone cold - you see me standing but I 'm dyin' on the floor,stone cold, stone cold maybe if I don't cry I won't feel anymore, stone cold, stone cold ..Give me the truth ...me and my heart will make it through" then it hangs like an ear worm .. popping out at odd moments....no other lyric lines.. just those lines. *sigh*
I think we all... hunger.... for the Truth.. and.. if we get the Truth we'll make it through? I don't know... I just know I am tired of hearing this one LOL This morning? I said... Okay , okay.. I got it... stone cold, need the Truth..to make it through. Thanks. that's enough!! *sigh*
Popping out of lurk mode to say hi, and hand out some pieces of cyber zucchini bread, because it's coming out of my ears right now. I've needed a mental health break from online stuff, social media, the news, etc, for the past few months. Trying to focus on good thoughts and good energy. Now the Delta surge is spinning me out again. I find I'm no longer able to have empathy for people who have been refusing the vaccine up to this point ... family members included. My attitude now better resembles, "you get what you get." And I hate that feeling.
I need to play catch up, but I hope all are well. Coyote and Ghandigirl, you two have both been on my mind off and on, and I hope you've been well and have felt peace.
Summer is ending in a very odd place. My daughter recently came out to me, and while I wasn't surprised a bit and feel relief for her, my husband is really struggling with it ... and I know telling his family will be a nightmare. Hoping this little bubble of just us knowing can be enough for her right now; she has anxiety anyway, and adding people who won't understand or accept isn't something she needs. I end each day sending up a little light that he will open his mind and heart, and understand that her soul isn't damned, and she isn't "broken," and this isn't my fault.
Hoping to visit more often and keep up with everyone. Please have another piece of zucchini bread ...
Popping out of lurk mode to say hi, and hand out some pieces of cyber zucchini bread, because it's coming out of my ears right now. I've needed a mental health break from online stuff, social media, the news, etc, for the past few months. Trying to focus on good thoughts and good energy. Now the Delta surge is spinning me out again. I find I'm no longer able to have empathy for people who have been refusing the vaccine up to this point ... family members included. My attitude now better resembles, "you get what you get." And I hate that feeling.
I'm experiencing similar feelings towards the unvaxxed and I don't like the feeling either. At least some of them are starting to realize "sh** is real" and are finally getting their shots.
As for the zucchini bread, I will take some if you will take some of my monstrous crop of cherry tomatoes. The vines are taking over the entire garden, climbing over a fig tree, and the freaking tomatoes are everywhere. I have never had much luck with tomatoes until now. I guess I will freeze some to use in cooking later. (If anyone wants to grow incredibly prolific cherry tomatoes, try the "Midnight Snack" variety. OMG. ? )
@ana @saibh Zucchini is driving me nuts right now. If I stay away from my garden for just two days, I return to zucchinis the size of watermelons. One day they are babies, then bam, they're on steroids. This happens to me every summer. What do I do with all that seedy pulp? Is it permissible to give them away that size? Or will neighbors think they are getting a reject. Can I freeze them in an easy way?
Barbara Kingsolver said that in her neighborhood, people leave their excess zucchinis on neighbor's porches, ring the bell and run away. Everybody's got too many zucchinis.
Does anyone have a workable recipe for GF zucchini bread that doesn't involve me grating zucchini for an hour then pressing it to get rid of all the water. That's too much work. Okay, I can use non GF, but isn't there a quick way to process the zucchini? @Laura-F, You must have something.
Jeanne, just how big are they? Have you tried stuffing them aka zucchini boats?
@lovendures That's a great idea. Like with rice, tomatoes and sweet peppers? Sounds perfect. I will do it. They are big.
Yes! Scoop out the seeds ( you can save them to grow next year) and get creative with whatever you wish to stuff them with.
I envy all your zucchini woes. Last year I lost my crop to zucchini beetles. This year I treated with seven dust but while I was in Kentucky we went from 80 degrees to 17 overnight and I lost my garden. Greatest wife ever bought me some new ones but almost none of the plants made it. This was not a good gardening year for Dannyboy. If I lived closer I'd let you "ring and run" all you wanted @Jeanne-Mayell
@jeanne-mayell, my diet requires that I eat low-carb so I spiralize my zucchini to make "pasta." I like using the bigger ones for that, although I once tried to spiralize one so large that it almost broke the hand-crank on my machine. Jeanne, it sounds like that was one of your zucchinis.
Zucchini fritters are also really good. Lots of recipes online.
Question: does anyone know how you can tell if a zucchini might be bitter before you cook it? Thought I'd read somewhere that the larger ones can be bitter, but I'm not certain of that.
I never press the zucchini ...
I just use any zucchini bread recipe, but sub GF 1:1 flour mix for the wheat flour (I like Bobs Red Mill or Cup 4 Cup).
I use my Cuisinart to grate the zucchini (or carrots if making carrot cake). No one said you have to do it the hard way!
As for other recipes, I make zucchini with pasta (GF of course) all the time. I like it with fresh pesto and sundried tomatoes, some grated pecorino on top.
Another old family favorite is to do a fast pickle. Here's how:
1. Slice the zucchini "on the bias", thinly (1/2 inch at most)
2. Heat some olive oil (use the cheap stuff) in a skillet - enough to cover bottom
3. Fry the slices on low-medium flame til golden
4. Drain on paper towels
5. Throw in any handy container (that is not metal) the following to taste:
-vinegar (whichever kind you like, I prefer red wine for this)
-chopped fresh mint leaves
-red pepper flakes
-salt
-a little more EVOO (use the good stuff)
6. Toss in the zucchini and stir or shake.
7. Store covered in fridge - minimum 4 hours, should keep for 2 weeks.
@dannyboy Aw, so sorry about the beetles. Okay. a week ago I was at my veggie garden and a Chinese gardener named Carl who has the plot next to mine, was in his plot, silently moving among his squash and complaining about all the beetles. I said, "That's too bad. I don't have any!" He came over to my plot and examined the leaves and said, "Yes, you do." I had been looking for those yellow beetles. He was looking for larvae, little yellow wormy things. He said, "Jeanne, the larvae eat all day long. That's all they do. They will destroy your crop." So I stayed two hours and squashed about 500 little yellow guys with my fingers, which turned sticky yellow. I don't know why, with my empathic brain that can't stand to even hurt a little plant, but I have no feelings for those larvae. I squish em with my fingers and am glad.
Muwhahaha.
I have a friend who pulls worms off her tomato and other plants and tosses them to her chickens!
"Circle of Life" LOL