Private Carnival

I guess most Highlanders noticed that they brought in a private carnival, just for the chosen few, right?  Well, here we are at our own private one, just for the grandkids.

 Tyson just about won the big prize:  A "BIG" Spongebob Squarepants".  It would go well with Jamie's decor...

 Logan makes a new decision:  I will now be going shooting with grandpa and Tyson.

 Flying high in the sky!

Tyson is very lucky at the fishing pond and at the first try wins the big prize.

Ty and Brynlee on the slide..

Brecklyn's turn!

Tyson, Logan, Brecklyn and Brynlee enjoy the ride.  Logan was a bit dizzy and had a hard time walking for a minute!

The kids had a great time and then we stopped for lunch at pie pizza cafe.  They had a spin the wheel contest at the front of the cafe.  Brecklyn won a free buffet, Tyson won a Cookie monster, which is a humongous dessert, Spencer $3.00 off, me $2.00 off and Logan 2 free drinks.  So the buffet with salad, all the pizza you can eat and dessert and drinks came to $16.00.  Not too bad.  I think that they had fun at their private carnival....

Frittering Away My Time

Yesterday I picked these zucchinis from the garden.  Some were really big and I don't enjoy them so much.  Last year, I dried the big ones in my food dryer, but I really didn't get too excited about them.  I grated that really big one on the top and got about 32 oz. of grated zucchini as shown below.

I have a really cool attachment that fits on the head of my Kitchen-Aid mixer.  It worked fast and easy.

I wasn't in the mood for making any zucchini bread, but I did decide to make some fritters, that I used a favorite potato pancake recipe to make.  I just took the zucchini instead of grated potatoes. And it doesn't look all that great, because they are all kind of stacked on top of one another, but we all loved them.

Here is what I did:

Zucchini Pancakes or Fritters

16 oz, ( 2 cups of grated zucchini, try to squeeze out the moisture with a paper towel.

1/2 chopped onion or to your own taste

1/2 c. or more, if you like of Romano cheese.  I used the shaker kind and it had asiago and Parmesan cheese in it.  It was what was in the fridge. 

1/2 c. flour

2 beaten eggs

spices as you like them (I like a lot!)

Mix it all up.  If some liquid forms, drain it out.  Then scoop some out with a spoon and put in a oiled hot fry pan.  I used olive oil, because that is all I use.  Flatten the fritter or pancake and fry till they are golden to slightly darker.  I wanted to make sure the egg was cooked.

Spence put catsup on his and I enjoyed them plain.  But all 3 of us really liked them alot.

Now I only have about 10 more zucchini to figure out what to do with.  Zucchini ice cream anyone????: