When Jim was a kid, there was always that younger or special neighborhood kid who got to use the double-sized red bat rather than the skinny yellow one when playing whiffle ball. Jim has always called it the Bam-Bam bat due to its resemblance to the bat favored by Fred Flintstone's son Bam-Bam.
Why this story now? Well, after neglecting our zucchini (AKA courgette) plants for a while, what else can you expect but enormous green Bam-Bam bats. You certainly can't fry them up and how much zucchini bread (AKA chocolate chip cake with fleck of green) can one eat. A lot, as it turns out and that's not going to help us with our "livestrong" quest.
Soup is healthier and, with a food processor, a breeze. Jim and Page made this Zucchini-Basil Soup for band practice Thursday night. It was healthy, but boring as hell. He and Peta subbed chicken broth for the water, added more onion, garlic and basil and added a quarter cup of homemade crème fraîche to the mix. Muuuuuch better. Probably pretty low in calories, even with the changes. I wouldn't give the original recipe even three stars, but the new and improved recipe might get three for flavor and four for health.
Jim and Peta
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