Fall

Summer is over and school has started. Where has it all gone? We did finish our second Cook's Illustrated. Mom also got a book called "Zucchini Houdini" that we have been trying out. The recipes we have tried have been pretty good. The people at work were not too impressed with my zucchini brownies. "Is that ruining a vegetable or a dessert?" I wouldn't have called them brownies though, but cake. Or really cakey brownies. They were one of those things better the second day. The first day they had a definite vegetable flavor, but the second it didn't seem so bad. Or I got accustomed to the flavor. One of my cousins (there were two here at the time) saw me making them and doesn't like squash so he didn't try them. The other one ate two before he figured the secret ingredient. Then he decided he didn't like them anymore. Maybe a smaller holed grater next time so the zucchini is less noticeable. The chocolate does cover up the green color.

Back to the five day bread pudding. We needed Challa bread to make it, and I don't know where we could get that here, so day one was make Challa. Fortunately it made more bread than needed for the bread pudding so we got to eat Challa, and it was good. I am pretty good at the bread thing. Day two nothing happened because we were busy. Day three, cube the bread then run out of time. Day four, make the final thing. It was good too. Don't know if it was worth the wait. Maybe if we had bought the bread. And not actually five days, but close.

Here is some manzanita. A very pretty bush with it's glossy evergreen leaves and smooth red bark. And a pretty good picture too, I think. Hey, I have to do something with all these pictures I take.