Posted on 07/01/2025 5:32:22 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
I wasn’t getting ANY green zucchini. My yellow zukes were producing just fine.
I dug around under there the other day - ONE baseball bat-sized green zuke! She’d been putting ALL of her energy into THAT - The Mother Ship, LOL!
So, Zucchini Bread it is! Don’t think I won’t use you, Missy! ;)
Re: Kitchen Aid
They really outdid themselves when they came up with this recipe. An ex-Amish lady that I watch on, ‘The You Tube’ says this is the best bread she’s ever made for her family - since she left The Life and now has access to electricity and a stand mixer! ;)
It’s not my Grandma’s Bread, but it’s pretty darn close!
https://www.kitchenaid.com/pinch-of-help/stand-mixers/tips-for-making-bread-with-stand-mixer.html
I learned to make the Betty Crocker ‘Casserole Bread’ decades ago. Always a good one to add cheese and herbs to as well.
https://www.recipelink.com/recipes/cheese-casserole-bread-betty-crocker-1986-016777
P.S. They have NOT updated, ‘The Recipe Link’ site in any way since the 1990’s, but the recipes are always spot on.
Printed! That looks really good!
I have had a hard time finding Orzo by me - no idea why - but I see you can substitute Ditalini which I like to use in homemade soups that call for some pasta.
Also - the dry Tortellini. There used to be a few brands of that, but I can no longer find it locally. The fresh/frozen refrigerated Tortellini is obscenely overpriced.
First World Problems.
LOL! I call them "volunteers!" I have single canes of raspberries here and there from birds eating the berries and "planting" the seeds from the air!
I live in the 2nd world I guess because tortellini is the only one of the three I’ve heard of
Something different- deep fried deviled eggs! Lots if recipes out there, all pretty similar for coating (flour, egg, panko). I’ll bet deep fried deviled eggs would cause a stir at a church potluck! 😁
https://www.foodfaithfitness.com/deep-fried-deviled-eggs-recipe/
You gotta get out of the Compound more often, Boy! ;)
Beau is always amazed at all the fancy names for Pasta, too. ‘Why can’t they call it all ‘Spaghetti’ and be DONE with it?!’
The Origins of Pasta Names: Unraveling the Mystery Behind the World’s Favorite Dish
“Pasta, a staple of Italian cuisine, has been a beloved dish around the world for centuries. With its rich flavors, diverse textures, and endless varieties, it’s no wonder why pasta has become a favorite among foodies and casual diners alike. But have you ever stopped to think about what gives pasta its name? From spaghetti to fettuccine, and from linguine to rigatoni, each type of pasta has a unique name that reflects its history, shape, and cultural significance.”
https://kitchenjournal.net/what-gives-pasta-its-name/
Jeremiah 29:11
Even if those 'plans' are nothing more than an overwhelming abundance of cucumbers, God? Really? LOL!
Waiting on the FOG to clear, then I'm going to mow, fix the 'Bread & Butter Pickle Disaster' and re-can them into FILLING UP each jar, and get cracking on the 'Jalapeno Pickle Relish' for the guys up at Bear Camp. Also have a monster sized Zucchini to shred and will make 'Zucchini Bread' that can go into the freezer.
Finally got some female squash flowers turning into tiny squashes and a watermelon about the size of a golf ball. It's either Sugar Baby or Otome, a slightly larger one. Late as usual because the back of the pickup truck, full sized watermelon sellers are already out.
I watered the plants and they turned yellow. Does that mean they need fertilizing badly?
Been watching these tires for a while and finally just ordered them. $200 delivered. They had two lots of two tires available and ebay says one lot is in someone's cart so I figured I better get them while I can. Last pair I was watching was $400+ but I had just paid $400 for rear tires so I took a pass to wait for a better deal. Paid $900 for the tractor but it's a common thing for an old tractor to double in value with new tires put on it.
I put brand new rear AG rib/lug tires on the tractor last year after the turf tires got so dry the sidewalls split open and tube was popping out. The front had done the same a while earlier and were originally wide turf tires. Unobtainium and the only thing I found that would fit were rear riding mower tires like this;
When muddy, turn the wheel and it keeps going straight LOL. The riding mower tires I bought were also cheapo stuff and they got holes, dried out and spend most of their time flat. Fill them up and one will be low enough to make it steer hard in 3-4 hours.
Now if you're perceptive, you may see a slight difference in width of the above two types of tires. Yeah, I'm going to have to modify the rims and make them narrower. They're probably about 5-6 inches wide and that will have to be reduced to 3 inches. Outside diameter of the tires is about the same, little bigger for the new ones but that was the same for the rear.
I've got a long To Get list of stuff for new projects but I really need to 'fix what I got' or 'replace what I had' first. Yes, I still need to fix the tractor radiator but constantly glancing over at it sitting on flat front tires ..... I think the new tires will motivate me.
Welding wire hasn't gotten too extreme at $80 and I need some. Aside from narrowing tractor rims, I can patch the hole in the old compressor tank and at least make it usable again. I want to keep it up by the house and put the new noisy one down against the shed wall with a little compressor shed/closet for it. Two side walls and a roof and let one side be open but with a good overhang. That side will face the woods. The old one is a low rpm chugger but all the new ones are high rpm screamers. I hate progress.
Just tried another decent Rutger’s. I can see why it was thee sauce tomato back in the mid 1900s. Decent tomato taste while neutral enough to tweak. Meaty yet juicy and good water was not as available everywhere back then to thin a sauce so juice was a good feature. It also tasted better than the tomatoes in my convenient store salad. They have a kitchen and I know they buy their tomatoes from the same grocery store I shop at.
Will try them again, along with the knowledge that they’re indeterminate. I generally eat tomatoes fresh, sliced/chunked with salt but I do want to make sauce someday and half way decent for fresh eating is a plus and not something you get with a Roma or San Marzano paste type.
I was just wondering your opinion (IF you saw the radar image.) I don’t quite see how “MCV” applies to a big conglomeration of t-storms with little rotation and not even really rotating around anything. “MCS” fits, though.
A MCV would be something like the bookend vortex that ripped through my Mom’s neck of the woods in 2009, tho’ not necessarily that intense, right?
I’m not really sure.
I didn’t get a good look at the radar and a lot has changed in t-storm and tornado predictions and understanding etc since I was in college.
I freeze my grated zucchini for zucchini bread and zucchini cookies off season.
The grated zucchini freezes beautifully and keeps well. I use Chinese food plastic containers for that, the kind you get their soups in. They work great and are *free* if you take out Chinese.
Do you have a link for the ex-Amish lady?
Their baked good are out of this world.
How 1,400 Tons of Spaghetti Are Made Every Day – Inside the Amazing Pasta Factory Production Process
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qyb0suzQ5M
I’ve found it (my urine) to be fairly effective in repelling varmints, but only very near to where I have, ah, “placed” it. Too much, and the salts can “burn” the plants, though.
I discovered that the “organic” vegetables fertilizer I fed several of my tomato plants with a few days ago unfortunately also encourages raccoons or opossums to dig up some of those plants. I say “some” because plants where I had a Coleus canina plant right beside the tomato plant did not get dug up. I think I’ll put one Coleus canina in a small hanging pot and hang it right beside the single fruit my struggling Opo plant has managed to crank out. Maybe it will keep the squirrels away. (The fruit is about 18” long @ present, so, at least I’ll get “something” harvestable out of that plant, although a “good” fruit will be 2 ft. long or more. I don’t think that’s gonna happen, but, we shall see...
The next 3 days look like real broilers. 97 on Tuesday and a dewpoint around noon of 80 deg. F. Somehow, I think “all progress will be before noon! Yesterday I did a lot of work outside and even avoiding the 3 pm to 6 pm time slot, I drank some sort of record for me (I think), of ice water and my lemonade-Gatorade mix.
I DO have a lot of paperwork to take care of the next couple days...
Well, if you drink gatoraid, your urine probably has ELECTROLYTES! (like Brawndo).
Well, I’d better hope it does, Gatorade or no Gatorade! ;-)
BTW, the mix is 2 parts lemonade mix (if powder) to 1 part Gatorade, sweeten to taste if desired - some lemonades don’t need that last. Generous ice. :-)
According to NOAA's own glossary:
MCS
Mesoscale Convective System. Mesoscale Convective System. A complex of thunderstorms which becomes organized on a scale larger than the individual thunderstorms, and normally persists for several hours or more. MCSs may be round or linear in shape, and include systems such as tropical cyclones, squall lines, and Mesoscale Convective Complexes (MCCs) (among others). MCS often is used to describe a cluster of thunderstorms that does not satisfy the size, shape, or duration criteria of an Mesoscale Convective Complex.
MCV is only defined as mesoscale cyclonic vortices
And, since they referred to it: :-)
MCC
Mesoscale Convective Complex. A large MCS, generally round or oval-shaped, which normally reaches peak intensity at night. The formal definition includes specific minimum criteria for size, duration, and eccentricity (i.e., "roundness"), based on the cloud shield as seen on infrared satellite photographs:
Size: Area of cloud top -32 degrees C or less: 100,000 square kilometers or more (slightly smaller than the state of Ohio), and area of cloud top -52 degrees C or less: 50,000 square kilometers or more
Duration: Size criteria must be met for at least 6 hours Eccentricity: Minor/major axis at least 0.7
MCCs typically form during the afternoon and evening in the form of several isolated thunderstorms, during which time the potential for severe weather is greatest. During peak intensity, the primary threat shifts toward heavy rain and flooding.
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