No baking this week.  Too busy.

I did make something fun, though.



Yup.  Soft shell crabs.  Fried.  Yum.



Theo was initially suspicious, and didn't go for the "eat it like a sandwich and you won't even know!" approach.



But he did like it once he tried it!



Yum, yum!  Wouldn't you?



Isaac liked it, too.  He especially liked posing for a silly picture.

Imagine that.  Boys being silly at dinner.  Who'd have thunk it?

Sorry, too busy to smile this morning.

Classes are over, but the grading has just begun.  (Well, no, but the obscene quantities of grading in an inappropriately short time period has just begun.)

So there may not be too terribly much baking in the coming week.  But I did a little this week.

I finally collected all the ingredients for Moist Bran Muffins (p. 45):



They were . . . fine.  I'm not necessarily a bran muffin fan, but these were tasty enough and, on the first day at least, moist.



But they were still bran muffins.  They didn't get eaten quite so fast as, say, these.

Anybody wanna guess what this is?



Great guesses, all, folks!

It's Chocolate Zucchini Cake (p. 426).



Isn't that special?  The zucchini is more or less undetectable, what with all the cocoa powder and the chocolate chips.



And also?  There's this glaze?

Yum.

Wow.  How'd the weekend get to be over so fast?

Well, it was a busy one.

Theo and I planted some nasturtiums with the pineapple sage.



(They haven't come up yet.)

Nasturtiums take some work to plant.



You have to file away a tiny little bit of the seed coat so that the seedling can break through.  (This simulates the trip through a bird's digestive system that the seeds normally take.)



Theo worked very hard and very carefully with the delicate task.  He only lost three or four seeds, but that was the deck's fault for having gaps between the boards.

Everything seems to be surviving the freezing snap, thanks to our hand-me-down greenhouse.



The pineapple sage and one purple basil are happy for the protection.  The kale would probably do fine without it, but since I tucked the basil in there (one of the kale plants didn't survive an altercation with a squirrel), the whole thing had to go under cover.



The oregano is doing fine in there, too.  We sowed some alyssum, which seem to be sprouting.



Lettuce is going gangbusters.  Two or three salads' worth already harvested.  (And they're totally shrugging off the freezes.)



Snapdragons are doing okay.



And the peas, too.

Nicer weather expected this week.  I may pull things out of the greenhouse for a bit, let them get some sun.

But the locals warn me not to be fooled.  "Don't plant anything before Memorial Day," they tell me.

Yippee.