What to do with the Zucchini your neighbor left on your porch yesterda
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3 years ago
Because yesterday was National Leave a Zucchini On Your Neighbor's Porch Day --
I made zucchini gratin but I was fortunate because none of those green vegetables ended up on my porch.
It's an Ina recipe and it is good!
I make it a lot in the summer and I'll even buy store zucchini in the winter to make it
Here's a link to the recipe:
https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/ina-garten/zucchini-gratin-recipe2-1916945
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nancyjane_gardener
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What do you have planned for your porches?
Comments (75)Cottonland, Your ceiling looks great! What a wonderful place to sit out.... Aughhhh! Isst, I really enjoy folklore. Makes me want to paint my ceiling blue just so I can repeat why I did it! We painted ours white to match the pillars. I wonder if I could fudge with the color in the story anyway! I could tell people the "evil spirits" don't like fog! LOL lorraineal, OMG! I am speechless with what you've done and how your home is shaping up. That porch is more than perfect (is that possible ??). You've got to post more pics of the inside when you can. I love the look. WOW! springbabes, Congrats on learning how to post pictures. Now we all can enjoy your build right along with you! That deck is going to be an amazing place to sit. Looks like you can see forever! One question, you must be putting stairs from the outside to get to it? If you've got a door upstairs it must be on the side we cannot see but from the pic it doesn't look wide enough for a walk way....See MoreWhat size is your back porch?
Comments (15)I'll try to get some snapshots of where we have some of the glassed in part up..lost all my photos on my laptop. this shot shows from the sliders out toward the garden where the catwalk is outside of the porch..now there is a glass wall between the part that is under the porch and the part that isn't covered..on the outside..the catwalk is 4' and goes L shape straight ahead and then to the right 10'..so the part where the tables are is glassed in..partly and will eventually be all done. You can see where we "temporarily" had glass up sideways on the right of this picture..those were taken down and put vertically as a wall HERE..by the catwalk..and now the part where the glass was up there sideways is now done with clear plexiglass..so you don't even see it.. The photo here shows the open deck beyond where we put the sliders..right at the edge there of the roof where it stops at the open part, now there are glass sliders there..beyond it is the place where since this photo was taken we have built an addition 16 x 16 to that shed for our wood boiler..so there is the double doors to the shed now..and then there is another door to the new shed and steps going down inside..as it is at ground level..with the boiler in it.. there is also a lot of trim and painting to be done, decorating, curtains to be put up..etc..hopefully this summer it will be done..and i can put finished photos up. this is looking from the front of the house toward the new addition to the porches and shed for the wood boiler..and it was put up hastily in the winter..so it hasn't been finished yet..but that is the new shed addition behind Ron ..that is off of the old shed above..so now it is 24 x 16..and will have another 8 x 16 addition put on the other side of this shed this year..and I'll be moving the little greenhouse close to the boiler this year too..so that it can have year around heat....See MoreWhat do your neighbor's kitchens look like?
Comments (25)Our neighborhood is really a mixed bag---homes are a mix of 2-3 BR single-family houses built between 1910 and 1925 and multi-family buildings built between 1907 and 1960 (with a few of the older multi-family buildings originally designed as mansions, and later carved up into smaller units; none of them are still used as single-family homes so those original kitchens, which must have been elaborate, are long gone!) So, consequently, there's a real range of kitchens depending on when they were last remodeled. The newer ones (remodeled in the last ten years, say) tend to be light-stained wood cabinets, Shaker style, with granite or granite-look counters and tile backsplashes. Then there are a bunch of late 60s remodeled kitchens (some of which are pretty awesome!) which tend to be colored painted cabinets with formica counters, sometimes replaced with granite. Every now and then you see what I call the "Home Depot" kitchen, which is just the normal oak cabinets with granite or laminate counters. And then you also see some IKEA kitchens if they've been done in the past ten years (when an IKEA opened two miles away); all the ones I've seen have been one of the two white styles they have, with butcherblock or granite counters. So I'm not really sure we have a "style" as a neighborhood. A lot of this comes down to the neighborhood history, too. It started out life as an elite area for the wealthy (mansions era), then because a middle-income area where families were building modest homes in the 1910s and 1920s and remained that until the mid 1960s, when white flight started and freeways came in. During the 70s and 80s, few of the homes were owner-occupied, with lots of absentee landlords. The area hit an economic low point in the early 80s during the crack epidemic, and then began to climb back up, with lots of gentrification in the late 90s/early 2000s. The families here now are, with a couple of exceptions, Gentrification 2.0---we all moved into a neighborhood that had already stabilized, homes that had already been restored, etc. You can pretty much track the kitchen remodels to those periods, which I find really interesting---kitchens remodeled in 1960 will be of a very different finish level/quality than those done in 1980. Not true for every house---a couple of the original families stayed here through the 1980s, and one couple from the 60s is still here---but there are definitely some trends. However, I can safely say that our kitchen will not look like any of our neighbors' kitchens, for now at least! So I guess that's good for keeping it diverse......See MoreDo you even know your neighbors?
Comments (39)I know, and like, all of my neighbors within about 1/4 mile, any direction. The nearest neighbors to the west are in a cluster of houses 1/4 mile away. I went to school with two of them, another was my brother's first grade teacher; another works at a bank I frequent, and another is a friend of my brother's, who came with my brother to visit us when we lived in Colorado 28 years ago. In the 1/4 mile to the east are the neighbors to whom we've been closest, watched our kids grow up together, and are now watching grandkids. One of the men was my son's teacher, and I used to buy milk and eggs from another neighbor, when she and her husband ran a small farm. The elderly couple at the bend in the road have adopted me since my husband passed away. Before then, they loved seeing my kids when they were young, and now love to see the grandkids stop for a chat. One of my daughter's classmates bought the farm to our south, and I've chatted with him several times when I've run into him at the fence line. Two distant cousins live to the north, and although one stopped to offer his help after my husband passed, I don't really see them, except to wave as they drive past my house. Other than the elderly couple, I don't really make it a point to go visit, but if I'm in the yard and see any of the neighbors out for a stroll, I usually walk to the end of the driveway to say hello, on their return trip. There is only one neighbor about whom I have mixed feelings. She lives on a dead-end road that starts at the 1/4 point, and drives a distinctive pick-up truck. A few years ago her cattle escaped and made a mess of my soggy yard and pond berms. When I complained, she said she'd fix the damage, but she never did, and I let it go. Her nephew hit our mailbox and didn't stop to tell us--the only way we knew who did the damage was that she came back looking for a piece of his side-view mirror, and asked if we'd found it. She didn't offer to fix the mailbox, so we fixed it, and let it go. Even though I recognize her truck, I no longer wave, or go out of my way to chat with her....See More
bragu_DSM 5
3 years ago
Islay Corbel
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3 years agolast modified: 3 years agoOur neighbors across the street gifted us with some zucchini, and we also had some zucchini ready to pick from our own garden (sleevendog, I'm growing zucchini!). I made zucchini bread posted by sheilajoyce_gw, who said the recipe was from a James Beard cookbook, and the recipe was from Carl Goh. It's DELICIOUS!
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