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[pshaw_raven]

 All my dental stuff is finally caught up and I don't go back until March of next year. I don't have an eye doctor appointment until after we're back from Japan, but I do need to get a flu shot before we go. I don't want to spend all that time locked in a metal tube having to breathe everyone else's crap without at least a flu shot. The last thing I want to do is come down with Tokyo Death Crud. 

It's the end of summer and around here that means there's a zucchini glut. Like you can't leave Publix without some. I don't mean "Oh it's such a good deal I can't pass it up!" I mean the manager forces bags of it on you as you leave. (j/k) Today I'm making as many loaves of zucchini bread as I can with the squash I've got and freezing the majority. I make a variant of the New York Times olive oil zucchini bread that subs in avocados for some of the oil, reduces the sugar, and adds in semisweet chocolate chips and toasted pecans. Depending on how many loaves of that I get, I may take some of the batter and make chocolate zucchini muffins. They get frozen, too. Since it's just me and Fox we don't go through a whole loaf or whole batch of muffins before they go stale - or if we do we regret it. So it's easier for me to portion out things and freeze them. I usually halve the loaves, but I may quarter them this time.

I'm hoping to also get some art time today. Once the batter is made, baking just becomes an assembly line activity, so while loaves are baking I can draw. I've been playing with using the tones and patterns loaded into CSP, as well as teaching myself how to use vectors. I had a sketch/doodle called "Owls All the Way Down" that I've started rendering as a larger piece using some of my newfound knowledge. I feel like I have tons to do every day, still, though I suspect that's a hangover from having a very busy couple of weeks recently. Things should calm down for a while until mid-October, when of course it's time to get ready for the race and the trip. But looking at the calendar I don't see anything coming up.

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[we_are_spc]

Where can you find that recipe (although without avocado, we might be screwed).

We have two smallish zukini and no recipe to use it in. (Along with a whole bunch of other crap we now have from a food pantry, lol)

Busy weeks are always interesting, that's for sure.

-Fallon~

[pshaw_raven]

https://cookingontheweekends.com/avocado-zucchini-bread-with-olive-oil/

I would say that you don't NEED the avocado exactly - it adds fat and makes the bread softer, but if you just have the quarter-cup of olive oil you should be fine. This particular recipe is not overly sweet, either, so to me it pairs well with peanut butter or (vegan) cream cheese. And if the zucchini don't provide two entire cups you could always try making muffins with a smaller amount, just bake them for maybe 20 minutes.

[pshaw_raven]

Also, we got Dee's journal here set up, he's ditching LJ as well. Hasn't posted anything yet but go look up user "stupid_cat" for him.

[we_are_spc]

Oooh thank you!

I don't blame him, honestly. We ditched it for accessibility for the most part. Hated doing it though because Momma-Trausio (To differentiate from the twat biomother) bought a permanent account when that thing was still ok to post on without being worried for your life. ... OK maybe I'm exagerating a little, but still.

Now all we do is poke at LJ Idol sometimes, and that not even always.

-Fallon~

[dorchadas]

That comment about zucchini reminds me of this Tumblr post.

During harvest season in Japan, we'd sometimes hear the doorbell ring and when we answered, a neighbor would shove a bag of cucumbers in our hands with a muttered どうぞ and then hurry away before we could turn it down.

[pshaw_raven]

That makes me think of Sneak Zucchini Into Your Neighbor's Porch Day. ROFL ...

I've also cut it into rounds and frozen it to add to smoothies. You don't taste it at all and it adds creaminess. Half a zucchini will give a smoothie bowl a texture like ice cream.