Day 218 - Bowling for Zucchini

Another day, another celebration (or two). I've celebrated courgettes already this year (remember Zucchini Bread Day?) but today was special. In addition to Zucchini Day (which I celebrated by cooking some courgettes) it was also Sneak Zucchini Onto Your Neighbo(u)r's Porch Day. I didn't read up on this but I assume that it was something to do with courgettes always growing quickly and producing loads of veg. When you have so much that you need to get rid of it somehow, the best way is to sneak it onto someone else's doorstep. I've had gluts of courgettes before, one good plant will happily provide enough for a whole family. I haven't grown any in a while though so I had to buy some for today.  We chose three courgettes, added a "Happy Zucchini Day" tag and left them in front of three of our neighbours' houses. To ensure sneakiness, we (me and my two sons) took it in turn to don a teenage mutant hero turtle mask (donatello's I think) so as not to look conspicuous. It was good fun, some of them are aware of this project so may guess where it came from. It made me want to start growing courgettes again. Yay.

Tea wasn't just ratatoille. To go with my courgettes I cooked up some Staffordshire oatcakes to celebrate Oatcake Day. This entailed blitzing oats, mixing them with wholemeal flour and adding it to a mixture of milk, water, yeast and sugar. After an hour you get a bubbly batter which you fry like pancakes. The results were quite tasty, they certainly tasted more savoury than standard pancakes. I'll probably make them again one day. As it was also The Date To Create I think that cooking up a treat makes that three in one. Boom.

Whilst I cooked and ate tea I was listening to Bowling For Soup, one if my all time favourite bands. You may ask why I'm telling you this, although you can probably hazard a guess. It was Bowling Day! I probably should have gone bowling but as I spent the day in London I didn't get a chance. If you haven't cone across them before I would suggest the Summer of '69 cover to ease you in with something familiar and then go straight for Belgium as you keep coming back to it in so many different ways.

The only other celebration today was International Cat Day. I celebrated this by giving one of my cats some treats. I haven't seen the other one since I got home so I assume she is off doing her own celebrating. If you spot her please tell her to come home or else her dinner will be in the other cat.