Dream Kitchen

White and stainless steel.  And I like the drawers next to the stove and the sink in the island.  This would mean the entire back (south) wall of the house would be made up of French doors.  Not a bad thing as the two skylights we already have warm this part of the house so well that we hardly use the furnace during the day, even in winter, here in the kitchen/dining room.  A room that I think was originally designed to be a "family room".

In other news.  I woke up this morning and then went back to bed.  I eventually woke up after 9 am and was lazy and hadn't even had my breakfast  at 10:30 when it FINALLY dawned on me that it was NOT Saturday.  It was Friday and I was supposed to be at work in less than an hour.  Buzz Kill.  I raced around and tried to get myself dressed, lunch packed and breakfast eaten before leaving the house.  I was still late and got to hear "where were you?" from coworkers who expect me to arrive early.  So much for being predictable.

My meals are getting to be very strange this week.  Lots of peanut butter.  Eaten off a large tablespoon. I am not that interested in anything I could be eating.  And there is SO MUCH ZUCCHINI.  Since I am not making pickles with the zucchini (we still have a carton of jars of pickles since I haven't been eating half a jar of these sweet things with a cheese sandwich for the past 15 months) and I don't have any meatballs and sauce made to eat with zucchini pasta and I am not feeling like making zucchini pizza crusts (I may decide to do this anyway), I am left with peanut butter.  I am going to have start leaving bags of the stuff on neighbor's porches.  Or taking it to the Food Pantry in town.

Most of the recipes that use zucchini also use large amounts of wheat flour and sugar.  I tried a GF recipe and those flours are too high in carbs and then there is the sweetener.  The zucchini casserole I made with sausage instead of bread cubes was good but I think the original with bread cubes must have been extraordinary.  My rendition was too eggy and watery.  Nothing was there to soak up things.  I could make and eat a second one---but I am not that interested.

When I was eating wheat flour and sugar I was interested in eating lots of things made with zucchini.  All I did was cook and bake and eat the stuff I cooked and baked.  I would be busy right now making the decadent chocolate zucchini brownies and eating them until I made myself sick.  I may try to make a wheat flour/ sugar free one.  But, usually these attempts get shoved down the sink disposal after one bite.  I don't like to waste food.  I hate, even more, gaining any weight.

The good thing about today?  Well, two things.  It was payday and tomorrow actually IS Saturday.  Sort of like Groundhog Day.  I get to relive the sleeping late and just being lazy tomorrow morning.