Week’sEnd Linky Wrap-Up

Best from around the web this past week….

• The Wizard of Oz,Steampunk Style Fabulous illustration by Jennifer L. Meyer. [via Nymeth on Twitter]
• recipe: Cream of Winter Squash & Tomato Soup . Yum.
• Add to my Must Read List: The Good Soldiers by David Finkel
• Help Make Puerto Rico Prosecute the Murder of 19-Year Old Jorge Steven Lopez Mercadoas a Hate Crime -Angering,horrifying,chilling. [via @The Undomestic]
• Tom Cruise’s Audition for New Moon
• Offset your Infidelity with Cheat Neutral Do you have difficulty being faithful? Fear not: CheatNeutral allows you to offset your infidelity by paying another couple not to cheat. Um,say what? Oh,I see. Carbon Offsets for those who haven’t figured out polyamory yet
• Vaccine Ingredient Calculator Nice to know exactly what’s in that stuff [via @NaturalPapa]
• Ten Webcomics You Should Read LGBT or Feminist friendly
• Crock Pot Recipe: Sweet Potato Stuffing Definitely making for THAT day – you know, some call it Turkey Day.Others call it Native American Genocide Day.Toe-may-toe,toe-mah-toe.
• Siblings who like each other and cooperate? oh,I understand – you must homeschool. Great article about the values homeschool teaches in regards to cooperation vs competitiveness. [via @Homeschool_Mom]
• Recipe: Pasta with Butternut Parmesan Sauce .Yes, I have squash I need to figure out what to do with.
• Must Have Children’ s Book: We’re Having a Homebirth! Looks like it tells it like it is. Always good, in my opinion.
• Four Good Reading Challenges for 2010 Oh,you book bloggers. Why do you do this to me?
• Top 100 Sex Bloggers of 2009 Quite a few of my regular reads made this list. Definitely going to make a point to check out the ones I’ve not read before
• An Open Letter To My Daughter Totally ditto to this.  Not just as it applies to that stupid vampire crap but in the real world with real relationships.Also, isn’t anyone else alarmed that Edward is a little creepily obsessed with stalking Bella? As one of my daughters yelled at Bella while watching Twilight,”“Some guy tells you he could kill you & you say that’s OK??? Are you a freakin’ moron!?”.
• Even more to add to the reading list: 15 Books Written by Women in 2009

Jupiter’s Twitter Files:Zucchini -Crusted Pizza

Twitter is a fantastic microblogging tool but sometimes I’m just a big blabbermouth who feels the need to elaborate pass the 140 characters…..

The Tweet

“making Zucchini-Crusted Pizza, one of my kids’ faves… http://www.recipezaar.com/6…” about 20 hours ago from web

Beyond the Tweet

The page in my Moosewood cookbook with the recipe for Zucchini-Crusted Pizza looks like it’s … Well. Encrusted with Zucchini-Crusted Pizza. Once upon a time, I was not the Domestic Goddess that I am now and didn’t know that “Put your cookbook/recipe in a big plastic baggie while you’re cooking” trick.

I was young. I wasn’t raised in a household that actually cooked their food. I was figuring it out as i went along.

The Moosewood Cookbook was a yard sale find. The Kid Timeline I judge time by tells me it was probably about 14 or 15 years ago. It was when the First Kid was little …but before the twins were born. Most mother’s are familiar with this sort of timeline. It’s like B.C. and A.D.  but with your kids names substituted for where the Christ part goes.It’s helpful for parents who can’t remember where they put there car keys or what today’s date is ,let alone how much the third kid weighed at birth .

This recipe has been used frequently in our household, whenever zucchini is in season especially. Have you ever noticed that at the end of the summer everyone has a ton of zucchini they’re trying to give away but nobody ever seems to know what the hell they’re supposed to do with it?

(don’t worry…I’m not going to turn this into another sex with phallic shaped veggies post.I promise…)

This is THE solution to what to do with zucchini. The genius part of it is that once it’s covered with sauce and regular pizza toppings, the green bits are cleverly disguised and any kid will devour it. The link to the recipe included in the Tweet is flawed.it is not the original recipe as written by Mollie Katzen and it’s also a little different from how I make it. Over the years,I have adapted the original recipe to suit my own tastes so here is what has become my version:

Zucchini-Crusted Pizza

Preheat oven to 350°

The Crust:

One good sized,zucchini,grated. It typically turns out to be about 3-4 cups

3 eggs,beaten

1/3 cup flour (I use whole wheat)

½ cup mozzarella

¼ parmesan

¼ cheddar

1 tbls basil

salt

Do this:

Salt the zucchini lightly and let it sit for 15 minutes. Squeeze all the excess moisture out of the zucchini. What I do is, squeeze it in handfuls over the sink and transfer the squeezed gratings to the mixing bowl

Combine all the rest of the crust ingredients with the zucchini and spread into an oiled  9 x 13 baking pan. Sometimes it doesn’t seem like it will cover the entire bottom of the pan but if you use a rubber spatula, you can make it stretch.This is a thin but soft crust.

Bake 20-25 minutes,until the surface is dry and firm.

Put all your desired pizza toppings on and throw it back in the oven until heated thoroughly and cheese is nice and melty.

Jupiter has leftover squash

Squishy Squashy Muffins

2 cups yellow squash

2 eggs

1/2 cup honey

2 1/2 cups flour

1/2 flaxseed

1 tbsp. plus 2 tsp. baking powder

1 tsp. salt

3/4 c. oil (or applesauce)

Grate the squash and add salt to it. Let it sit for about 5 minutes and wring out any excess moisture. Add eggs,honey and oil. Then add sifted-together dry ingredients. Mix thoroughly and spoon batter into muffin tins.Bake at 400 for about 15 minutes.