Zucchini vs. Cucumber

Jade plant, growing along a sidewalk near my home.

The other night, I decided to bake a tomato-zucchini casserole, using a recipe from The Southern Lady Cooks blog. You might remember that we have two full-size refrigerators: one in the kitchen and one in the living room. I took a bag of produce out of the living room fridge and got really upset when I saw two small cucumbers in it.

Hello!!! The recipe called for 2 zucchinis, not 2 cucumbers!

I asked Lisa, “Aren’t these cucumbers?”

“Yes, of course,” she replied.

“What an idiot David is! He doesn’t know the difference between a cucumber and a zucchini, and furthermore, the stocker at the market showed him the wrong vegetable! Grrr!” I was livid.

What could I do? It was too late to drive to the market for zucchinis, so I made the casserole with the cucumbers. When David got home from work, he received an earful from me. He kept insisting he’d bought zucchinis, not cucumbers, and he didn’t need to see my drawing of a zucchini.

The cucumbers tasted awful. But, the rest of the casserole was superb!

The next day, Lisa went to the living room fridge.

Lisa: “Mom, did you take my cucumbers and tomatoes from this fridge?”

Me: “Those were mine! David bought them for me.”

Lisa: “Mom, I bought them! Those were MY cucumbers!”

She went to the kitchen fridge and brought out a bag of zucchinis and tomatoes. “THESE ARE YOURS, MOTHER!!!”

Oh!

I apologized to Lisa. And I apologized to David. Now I know: This husband of mine CAN tell a zucchini from a cucumber! Lol.