When Life Gives You Lemons

You make zucchini bread. Lots of it. In fact, you do what I like to call "The Great Zucchini Bread Experiment." Three times in the last six weeks I have had my freezer defrost unexpectedly. The first time my kids left my big freezer open. It is downstairs in the back room and it took until the next day to notice. Lots of thawed veggies, but the meat stayed solid. About a month later I forgot to turn my fridge back on after cleaning it. Right as I finished I became slightly distracted by the kids yelling "Grant has poopy all over his bed and hands!" Lovely. More thawed veggies and a some frozen leftovers to quickly consume. Then a couple of days ago I walked downstairs to find that someone had pulled the plug on my big freezer a few days earlier. This time everything was thawed. I probably caught it at the last possible minute of being able to use the food. Good thing I had just stocked up on a lot of chicken and pork chops. So my entire afternoon Monday was spent cooking as much meat as I could, running the rest around to my neighbors, unloading tons of freezer jams and (not so) frozen veggies, including all my zucchini. I decided if I have to make a lot of zucchini bread, I might as well do it in the name of science and for the sake of my posterity. If you are interested in the results, check it out. If not, then check out these pictures.