Snookums, those zucchini were vegetables and you're an obligate carnivore

[cimorene]

Wax thought that three zucchini plants would be a nice round number this year, and then it rained for a few days and nobody went outside, and we ended up with six zucchini of which two were supergiant, and the Ukrainians only agreed to take one.

The zucchini fritters we tried to make WOULD have been great if they had been cooked through, but the insides were still raw and the texture was wigging me out so I couldn't finish them. Wax still liked them. I'm thinking baked would probably work, but as for fried ones - the recipe said medium-high, and I can't think of any universe where they'd cook through on medium high instead of toasting the outsides. If you made them really small and thin - which the recipe didn't indicate! - they wouldn't really even hold together long enough to put them in the pan! The mixture doesn't have the structural integrity of like, latkes. Or falafel.

Anyway, that's not the point of this post. The point is that fully four zucchinis went into those fritters, and we only ate half before coming back in the kitchen and finding Snookums poking around in the plate. He was licking one and had gnawed on several others, and we couldn't tell by looking which ones he had licked or bit, so they all went in the trash.

So although he didn't actually, I think, ingest even a teaspoonful of zucchini, my little man disposed of 2/3 of the Big Zucchini Harvest all by himself.

Comments

[princessofgeeks]

Tip about zucchini fritters... the shredded zucchini has so much liquid in it that you get much better results if you wring the shredded zucchini in a cloth towel before mixing it with the egg, flour and spices.

The texture that bothered you was probably because it was so wet. Takes forever to fry that way.

Potatoes are the same but less wet.

[cimorene]

Oh yeah, we did. We spent about 20 minutes wringing them out.

[princessofgeeks]

Well then I'm sorry they turned out weird. At least the cat liked them, I guess!!!

[cimorene]

Wax did too! But we have no idea why it didn't work. 🤔

[pensnest]

My cat has not so far contributed to the courgette race by eating any.

I like to bake them, cut in halves or quarters and annointed with a mixture of olive oil (or something different, eg smoked rape seed oil, because it's there) plus salt and pepper, and a sprinkling of chilli flakes. It's a lot less trouble than fritters, which I have tried before and meh.

[cimorene]

We usually include them in various mixtures of roasted vegetables, but there were so many of them that we wanted to try something new that would hopefully use jmore than one at once!

[laurenthemself]

Gee, the post title sounds familiar! Like 'Toby, this ice cream is dairy and you're a lactose intolerant obligate carnivore', which I usually have to reduce to 'Getouttathat' in order to say it before he starts licking.

[cimorene]

Well, cats going for dairy is pretty predictable at least. It's full of animal fat, so it must smell good! Fortunately we buy lactose-free for me anyway.