Day 13

We are harvesting loads of Zuchini right now, so.....

Zucchini Research:

From the old, faithful Moosewood cookbook :-
Sweet zucchini - spice bread
35mins to prepare, 35-45 mins to bake
preheat oven to 350f, butter a medium loaf pan
2 cups coarsely grated zucchini (packed measure)
1/2 cup honey
6Tbs melted butter
2 large eggs
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
1 cup unbleached white flour
1 cup wholewheat flour
1/2 tsp salt
21/2 tsp baking powder
1/4tsp nutmeg
1/2 tsp allspice
1/2tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp ginger
optional 1/2 cup chopped nuts and/or 1/2 cup currants

• Place grated zucchini in a colander over a bowl or sink. Let stand 10-20mins, then squeeze out all moisture.
• With an electric mixer at high speed, beat the honey for about 5 mins, or until white and opaque. Beat in the butter, eggs, and vanilla. Beat several minutes more.
• Sift together the dry ingredients.
• Add the sifted dry ingredients, alternately with the zucchini, to the honey mixture, beginning and ending with the dry ( Flour/zuke/flour/zuke/flour). Mix just enough to blend after each addition.
• Stir in optional nuts and currants last.
• Spread into a medium sized buttered loaf pan. Bake 35-45 mins.

Lunch today - Smoked chicken salad (from Willunga) with greens from garden: rocket, sorrel, spinach, basil, and several types of lettuce; plus cucumber, snow peas, cherry tomatoes and red onion (from food co-op, market, and Foodland). Served with grated beetroot (from garden) and carrot (food co-op) salad with Laksa Mint (garden), balsalmic vinegar and sesame oil (pantry).

Dessert - fruit salad with peaches and pears (from market), apples, grapes, and strawberries (foodland), drizzled with Maggie Beer's quince sauce (also foodland), which I dropped and smashed on the bamboo floor (weep).

Fess up - Grapes from Foodland are from Mildura (doh), and my sister Wendy brought Ferrero Rocher chocolate today to share. We had decided at the last family meeting - if it is a gift, we can eat it - happy days!

Tonight's dinner - see photo. I thought that the Zucchini cake might be more savoury, however, it is a cake, and sweet, a bit wierd with salad!

Bridget