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Today was a big cooking day here at The Dackel Princess House. Actually Hubby departed early on to go work in the forest again, and that left me with the Dackels, zucchini and more tomatoes than I knew what to do with!
So when all else fails, one must cook, yes?
I started by clearing the shelves and making sure everything was nice and clean. I’m quite lucky to have a big island counter top in my kitchen where I can spread out and work.
You can just see Greta enjoying the sunshine on the left side of the picture.
Then I got out all the equipment and ingredients to make the zucchini bread.
See my beautiful zucchini?
After this I used the food processor to shred it.
Then I mixed it all together and put it in pans.
And when I was done I had eight loaves of zucchini bread.
Seven of them went into the freezer, and one stayed out.
Meanwhile, during the time I was working on the zucchini bread, I had the tomatoes cooking so I could make spaghetti sauce. After a couple of hours cooking down the tomatoes, I put them through a food mill to separate the seeds and skins from the pulp.
I sauteed up some onions, peppers, celery, garlic and Italian Sausage and ground beef to make a nice thick meat sauce. After a few hours of simmering it slowly, it was done. I divided it up and froze half and kept half out. I’m thinking of making a zucchini lasagna with the sauce.
Later in the day, because I hadn’t cooked enough, I got to work on a beautiful Rainbow Trout that was given to me by my friend, Dave. This was an enormous fish and fed both Hubby and I completely!
I still want Dave to teach me how to cook this fish the way he described. Somehow I don’t think I got it right. Still we both enjoyed it, and so did Greta, Fritz, and Anneliese. They got the scraps. Arnie, funny little guy that he is, didn’t like it! I was shocked. I tried giving him the skin, but no. He didn’t like it!
So my day is ending, all the cooking is done and I am finally able to put up my feet and relax.
Tomorrow it’s zucchini lasagna!
Would you mind of sending me your tomato-sauce recipe over?
I have so many tomatoes in my garden and just don’t know what to do with them.
Puh! I´m tired just reading this. You are some cook! Good on you!
Wow, and with all the heat outside! I hope you’ve kept the air conditioners in? Love YOU, Mel
I love the big island counter top in your kitchen! I love cooking but my kitchen is too small.
I just wish I have green fingers so I could grow some fresh vegetables in my garden. It would be lovely to harvest them fresh for my meals.
Oh my, I think you cooked for the whole year ! this zucchine bread looks delicious, I have never eaten it !
Do you participate in my new meme “What did you do this Weekend ?” I am participant hunting, lol !
Mmmmmm…. I would suuuure love a piece of that zucchini bread! I had HOPED to get enough tomatoes to make some sauce this year… but it was not to be. I find it amazing HOW MANY tomatoes the 3 of us can eat!!! It’s crazy! Your zucchinis ARE beautiful – VERY big! I had a few that got that size – but then they were a little dry and tough, so I started making sure I picked them before they got that far. No zucchini bread for me either… *sigh*… I just can’t resist slicing them up and eating them raw!
I love your kitchen! So much space!
Your Zucchini looks great and I just love Zucchini bread! But that fish, wow you were so lucky to get wild trout. Always a treat, you know how much hubby and I love fish! That one looks fish-a-licious!
Those aren’t zucchini, they’re MONSTERS! Real zucchini are the size of small cigars. And yellow. Yes indeedy.
Those are some big zucchini! Glad you liked the trout. I’ll ask Dave to email you the recipe for next time! It looked good, tho!
Never heard of zucchini bread before, but it sure looks great!