Friday, August 9, 2013

I feel a bit less smart.

Farwell teeth!

There are lots of body parts that we have, that were given to us by God, that we can somehow live without.  Which to me, it doesn't make much sense as to why we would have these parts if we did not need them.  One part, or parts, are wisdom teeth.  I had mine removed yesterday.  I really dreaded it. In fact, I have been putting it off for 10 years!  Anyway, so to get my mind off the pain that I am going through I tried to keep myself busy.  Last night I went to the Pioneer Feed at the County Fair.  Since I am on City Council, we serve the food.  I felt like I needed to be there.  Today, I spent the day canning, baking and picking the garden., along with all the other house hold chores.  I am about out of energy so I figured I would post a couple recipies for those of you interested in what I did today.


Dill Relish!
The first thing I needed to do was use up a bunch of cucumbers.  I have already made dill pickles (Spears, rings, and sandwich slices) so I figured I needed dill relish to go along with the sweet relish.  Here is the recipe I used.  It turned out a beautiful color with an amazing flavor.

Double-Chocolate Zucchini Bread
Double-Chocolate Zucchini Bread
Next I needed to bake something.  I found a recipe on Pinterest from a 4 ingredient chocolate zucchini bread.  It was sub-par.  Nothing had amounts.  It was 3 or 4 zucchini, a cake mix, a couple eggs, and some water depending on moistness.  That doesn't fly with me.  So I searched and found another and the batter when I was finished was amazing.  These are going to my hubby's formans.  That way he can thank them for letting him off to take me to my surgery yesterday.

Overall today was a good day.  It could have been much worse.  Now I am headed down to the fair to see what I can find.  Surely a funnel cake will be ok to eat right?  :)
Harper Co. Fair Time!