I love summer. Julia’s out of preschool and we’re spending a lot of time together. The first few weeks were hard because we both had to get used to the new schedule, new routine, and being so tight again. Now that we’re hitting our groove it’s a lot less frustrating.
She’s experimenting with new art supplies — tortillons, charcoal pencils, water color pencils…
I’m experimenting with new recipes and shutting down my garden before I have landscapers come in to regrade and put in mulched paths.
ZUCCHINNI BAKE
We did this recipe together for a quiche-like bake because I was trying to use up some organic zucchinni and organic yellow crookneck squash. I think it is her first non-dessert recipe she executed with supervision. I found it at allrecipes.com and just use halfsies instead of all zucchinni.
Julia grated the squashes since she can’t use a sharp knife yet. We skipped the onion because she insisted that it would make us cry. (She’s going through this anti-onion period.)
INGREDIENTS
- 1 cup biscuit baking mix
- 1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese
- 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1/2 teaspoon seasoning salt
- 1/2 teaspoon dried oregano
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
- 1 teaspoon dried parsley
- 1/4 cup grated onion
- 4 eggs
- 1/3 cup vegetable oil
- 2 zucchini, thinly sliced (Or grated!)
DIRECTIONS
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease an 8×8 inch baking pan.
- In a large bowl, combine baking mix, cheese, garlic powder, seasoning salt, oregano, salt, pepper and parsley. Stir in onion, eggs and oil; stir well. Stir in zucchini. Pour batter into prepared pan.
- Bake in preheated oven for 25 to 30, until a toothpick inserted into center of the loaf comes out clean.
PHOTOS
Here’s Julia cooking standing on a stool. I was also making 5 entrees and sides for a mom with a new baby so we were having a good time wrecking the kitchen!
This is what the batter looked like. We liked it so much grated, I don’t think I’ll get around to trying this with sliced squashes.
Julia pouring the batter into the 8×8 glass dish.
It took a long meditative period to get the batter smoothed just so…
Fresh out of the oven after baking 30 min at 350 deg.
