Recipe: Zucchini Rounds

Very good

especially when the zucchini is picked fresh just hours before you make these little rounds. By the way-- we just dropped spoonfuls of batter into the skillet rather than "molding" the mixture.

ZUCCHINI ROUNDS

Serves 6

1/3 C biscuit mix (like Bisquik or Jiffy)

¼ C shredded Parmesan cheese

1/8 tsp pepper

2 eggs, lightly beaten

1 big zucchini, shredded (about 2 C)

Butter

In mixing bowl combine biscuit mix, cheese, and pepper. Stir in eggs until mixture is moist. Fold in zucchini. In large skillet, melt 2 Tbsp butter over medium heat. Using about 2 Tbsp mixture for each, mold mixture into 12 patties. Cook four patties at a time in skillet, about 2-3 minutes per side (or until golden brown). Add more butter as needed.

Squash Night: Also Known as Veggie Night

Zucchini Rounds

fried in butter.

Recipe tomorrow. 

We also made Ed's Hot Squash (it's not that hot) and baked a loaf of zucchini bread from a recipe we hadn't tried before. It has sesame seeds on the top. 

Speaking of hot... 

If you support me...

I can reach for the sky.

Context:

Inside the Life of an Okra

'Corn Horn'

'Aunt Hattie's Red'

There is nothing-- and I do mean nothing-- like Mr. Big Food's okra fritters. Lord. I'll bet you one United States Dollar that there will be fried catfish night featuring okra fritters real soon!

Oh! Maybe I will suggest that for one of our Independence Day Celebrations suppers. There's nothing-- and I do mean nothing-- like firing up both barrels of the turkey fryer when it's 100 degrees outside.

All we do is eat!: Recipes Page

In addition to the main page you are reading, there is a "Recipes" page here at the blog that has a list of recipes I've posted and links to the recipe's post. The link to the Recipe Page is in the header under the blog title. This page has been out of date for months-- and I apologize for that. I took advantage of Mr. Big Food's recent absence and the warm spell we're having here (yes, it was too warm for me to work outside this afternoon) to update the page and do a spot of organization of the list.

It was fun traveling down Food Memory Lane! But I also realized I've been very neglectful lately about taking photos and posting recipes. I'll try to do better because we are eating well, and rather inexpensively, I might add. 

I've one favor to ask. If you know-- because you copied it to a notecard-- I've posted a recipe for something, and you don't see it on the recipe page, please let me know so I can correct the list. 

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In just a bit I will pull some Spicy Frozen Cucumbers (from last year!) out of the freezer. We'll have those with tonight's supper. For those who have an overabundance of cukes this season, here's the recipe.

Eat well!

"Oh the humanity." UPDATED with link.

In a reckless example of the latest uber-dangerous summer fad, four lawless yoots drove past an innocent girl and her younger brother standing on a street corner, dousing the two with a searing stream of chlorinated dihydrogen monoxide. Or, as thesmokinggun.com details, “Four Pennsylvanians who fired water guns loaded with chlorinated water on a teen and her younger brother from a moving car now face misdemeanor disorderly conduct and harassment charges.” You may know the noxious substance used in the brutal attack as pool water . . .

Just making sure you're up to speed on what's going on beyond the Sovereign State of Mississippi where it's a bit on the warm side today.

Read the rest here. Scary stuff.

CLOSE TAB

Mr. Big Food has arrived home on time. I can close out the Delta tabs. 

One of the first comments he made to me in the truck as we were leaving the airport was that he'd forgotten how rude people are. He said after the first several attempts to greet a fellow human in a hallway or while passing through a doorway he was met with nothing, so he just gave up. 

He didn't day this, but if I may,

Screw you guys, I'm goin' home.

He also tells us that happy people rent bicycles and go bicycling out there.  

Everyone is happy Mr. Big Food is Home on the Farm. 

Now to the food part.

A Disturbance in the Force.

That's what happens when you stray too far off the Farm for too long.

Admin Day

I am doing some updates to the blog. If changes disturb your experience here, please let me know.

"Memories like that will _never_ make it to the internet!"

concludes suek in our discussion on cookbook extinction.

She writes:

I've started transferring some of my recipes - usually the ones the kids have asked for - into digital form, but I still need my index cards. Much more practical for working with in the kitchen.

And besides - some of them are still in my Mom's handwriting, or my Dad's. Of course _I_ know that - and recognize them - but I doubt that others would. And of course, the handwritten ones from friends along the way...

Like Carolyn's "Burnt Kitchen Candy"... she was making the recipe one day when I picked her up to go to a luncheon event. She thought she turned the stove off (electric stove - did I mention I dislike electric stoves intensely?), but instead she turned it to high. By the time we got home, her house was filled with smoke - greasy smoke...the recipe called for a pound of butter, I think ... that penetrated throughout the entire house. What a mess. Fortunately, the cupboards above the stove were metal, so although smoke stained, nothing burned but the candy.

Memories like that will _never_ make it to the internet!

She's right. And that's why there will always be crappy old cookbooks and notecards and marginalia.

The tangible (notecard with handwritten recipe) connects to the intangible (memories) in ways that  don't exist in the digital world.

Mom's Pie Crust recipe

See?

Mom's Pie Crust recipe, among some other crappy old stuff.

Portable Produce Stand

She'll need to sell a lot more than this to pay for her new car battery & alternator. Hmmm... . Maybe I should have a tip jar.

The idea was for Daughter C. to pick up some coffee money by "selling" some things to her co-workers this morning. Instead, her car broke down last evening and she was stuck in Starkvegas. Oh well. Maybe Monday, when there will be plenty more in her portable produce stand.

Viking: "All me shiny things about me"

That's a quote-- or more likely a paraphrase-- from the movie, The Quiet Man. The character, Mary Kate, wants her shiny things. Who could blame her? She wants what she wants.

Just so a woman wanted a restaurant quality range in her new home in Greenwood, Mississippi. "No such range existed," so home builder Fred Carl designed one. ... Viking Range! (Story from Off the Beaten Path Mississippi.)

How much is that range in the window?

I think not.

Full article at Slate here.

Oh my. 

The author of this article goes to great pains to be sure we know he/she loves to cook, loves cookbooks, loves to write about cooking, et cetera. That's nice. 

The first point he/she makes is that cookbooks, more than other sorts of books, are given as gifts. This is an assumption that is not backed by any data, but I'll not argue with it. He/she sees cookbooks as gifts becoming apps as gifts, eBooks as gifts and so on. Yeah, well, maybe... . But I don't see total replacement with respect to cookbooks as gifts. What does an app look like on the coffee table?

He/she then highlights "[t]he value of a cookbook qua cookbook... ."

While... : Antebellum Churches

1836

I had a hard time getting the information apart from its object. I *think* this was 1838.

I chose to not crop this photo.

Ditto

Look how blue that sky is!

While My Camera... : Downtown Greenwood, Mississippi

We did our Greenwood errand and then looked around, guided in no small part by the book that Daughter C. found at Square Books in Oxford, Mississippi and gave to us last weekend, Off the Beaten Path Mississippi : A Guide to Unique Places* by Marlo Carter Kirkpatrick (2010).

We did our errand, parked, and strolled around. In chronological order...

Viking World Headquarters

[There will be a separate post about Viking's presence in Greenwood, Mississippi.]

There are a number of galleries on Howard Street, the not-Main St. main street.

Read this. What a well-written sign. What a well-written paragraph. We go from the general to B.B. King.

The downtown seems to be prosperous. There are vacant buildings, but my sense is that someone will eventually do something with them. Or Viking will go out of business. 

While My Camera & Computer Were Separated: 162 Ounces of Blanched, Packaged Squash

The "what we did after we returned from the Delta" part of this post

While My Camera & Computer Were Separated: Times Have Changed.

Meant to accompany this post from yesterday

Accompanied this post of four months ago

And...

we're back! Not exactly to where we left off-- my time machine backup was a couple of weeks out of date-- but still. No more unbacklighted keyboards for me!

Thanks for your patience.

Suek comments,

Dogs...the only true love money can buy...!


(wish I could say that I was the originator of that thought, but I wasn't. It's still true, though)

Yes it is. 

"One Nation Under Dog"

I do so wish my computer was working. I've taken a photo-- good thing, too, because Rocky just got up-- and will post it as soon as I am able. They were laying on the kitchen floor. Rocky was pointed this way <-- and Missy that --> ; his hip was tucked in her belly. They are being very quiet this morning. They got their dose of flea & tick repellent Monday evening, which means they can't go in the water until Thursday. It can be something of a struggle managing them if they don't get enough exercise, which they may not have yesterday as we were in the Delta. Despite that, this morning they are very calm. (I know, I know. Just wait until this evening!)

We talk from time to time about the dogs' lives-- even Suzy's, rest her soul-- here at the Farm. As you may recall, Daughter C. rescued Rocky from a life tied to a tree in West Point, Mississippi, a town that's had its share of human-promoted dog fights. Missy spent most of her first five months at the shelter in West Point and had I or someone else not come along... .

I was reminded of their backgrounds while reading Althouse's comments on the HBO documentary, "One Nation Under Dog."