I Haven’t Forgotten Y’all; I Promise

I wrote a post the other day, but it kept telling me it was autosaving. It wouldn’t let me save a draft, or publish, or anything. I finally sacrificed everything thing I wrote and am starting over.

Like last time, I’m doing a lot of cooking. However, this time it is for the pilgrims also. Tonight’s dinner was for ten people! Fifteen counting the volunteers, but I ended up not cooking for them. Not because I didn’t want to, but because by the time we had made enough food for the pilgrims there wasn’t enough for us. Except for dessert.

Like all people with gardens in the summer, Stef has an overabundance of zucchini. His have gotten bigger than any zucchini I have ever seen, however.

I made zucchini brownies the other night, and tonight was zucchini dessert squares. You cook the zucchini in lemon juice with sugar and add cinnamon and nutmeg, then layer it between a patted firm base and a crumbly top. The result tastes a lot like an apple crisp. When pre-baking the lower crust, I burnt it and had to scrape part of it out. I decided the part with no bottom crust was better. The rest of the dinner was pasta with red sauce and mushrooms and a green bean, red pepper, and cucumber salad the pilgrims obviously didn’t care for. I also used the vegetable peeler to turn one of the zucchinis into zoodles.

We had to cook more pasta for us, and Sophia made a mushroom sauce that was really delicious. And of course there was enough dessert for us, but that crumble REALLY needed ice cream.

The day before yesterday Sophia and Anika and I took a walk. Anika left yesterday and Ren arrived. They are also a voice major, but they actually performed opera for awhile.

I haven’t yet gotten into a routine for posting because we are so busy. After we booked our ten, which is our maximum, Stef fielded at least that many calls asking for a place to stay. Yesterday we had three pilgrims, and the day before, one. But I have been told most of Spain takes their holidays the first two weeks of August, and that is why we are so busy.

For the record, it is NOT hot here anymore. I have even been a little chilly a few times. So I may have to do the clothes shopping I always planned on a little early. Stef says some of the clothes I left are still here. I may try to find them in a few days.