Covid Cafe: Lemon Zucchini Coffee Cake

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Dark Star zucchini

in our garden

 

Good day to you, chefs. It's pouring here in Michigan, putting a big smile on this water girl's face. The zucchini above, glossy and nutrient-packed, are thriving in the garden next door, which our neighbors graciously loaned us to work in. 

Today, Holly checks in with a sweet diversion that contains plenty of lemon zest...

 

Holly writes: This seems like a big mess for a little coffee cake! (ed note: looks worth it to me...)

Good review from my taster. The recipe (find it here at Pioneer Woman) suggests waiting overnight for even better flavor. 

Dustin in Nashville

grew a two-pound tomato 
that looks like a heart

Music

The Five Stairsteps 

  O-o-h Child

Poetry

The Singer

By Chard DeNiord

For Ethan Canin

I sat on the dock at dusk and spoke

to the fish who swam beneath me

like ears with fins to hear my secrets.

“That words come close?” I whispered.

“The sky enters me like a sword

with my own hand on the hilt.

How to witness what I can't express—

the smell of lilacs, the dirge of loons.

Make up the rest if you wish.

Less is enough.

Say I sound like one of the Hosts.

That I'm crying also and there's nothing

you can do to make me stop.

That I'm like the peepers, katydids, and thrush

with my own song— all call in the opera of dusk.

Or is it response?”

Protest into action

Here's a powerful story about a group of athletes and teens in Austin turning a liquor store into a pop-up food market and place to hang out. Click here for the story.

 

New potatoes

from this week's farmshare