In the Kitchen

I spent a lot of time this weekend in the kitchen.  I found myself with a bunch of tomatoes and cucumbers from the garden, as well as a zucchini, and (once again) TOO MANY eggs.

This year I'm having the same issue with my cucumbers that I had several years ago:  they are very prolific, but because it has been dry, some of them are intensely bitter.  I thought I would have enough cukes to can some pickles, but half of them were inedible, so I started some refrigerator Bread & Butter pickles - they have to marinate for 24 hours before we can try them.

I also made some NY style pizza sauce that went into the freezer for later.

I baked 2 loaves of zucchini bread and made 3 quiches (2 ham and cheese for JP & myself and Mom & Dad) and one cheese pizza one for L and managed to use up 3 dozen and 1 eggs.

For dessert, I made "Train Wreck."  Train Wreck is like a messy trifle of my own creation.  I make it with layers of cake cubes, pudding, crushed candy/oreos/fruit, and whipped cream.  This one was angel food cake, chocolate pudding, crushed Skor bars and whipped cream.

Poor Stella had surgery on Thursday to remove a growth from her eyelid.  She doesn't want to leave it alone, so she is having to wear an Elizabethan Collar as well as socks on her hind feet.

She looks like a hybrid vacuum/dog:

Speaking of hybrids, JP and I finally went to look at a car yesterday (one month after losing the Subaru.)  We drove a Hybrid Hyundai Tucson.  It's a nice little car, and we were seriously considering it, but when we came back home and did a bit of research, it has a pretty poor reliability rating with Consumer Reports.  I think we will look at a plug in Hybrid Toyota Rav 4 later in the week.

That's about it for my weekend.  Time to go taste the quiche!