Homeade failures vs. packaged perfection

"Others learned to treat their kitchens the way Julia Child did: as a place where they were in charge, where even failures tasted better to them than packaged perfection."

~ Laura Shapiro, in the introduction to Something from the Oven, pg XXV.

Zucchini

So recently I've been experimenting with zucchini and summer squash. On today's menu is pasta with spaghetti sauce, roasted zucchini and squash, and feta cheese.

Lesson 1.1

Don't keep cinnamon in the pantry for a whole summer because then everything else in the pantry will taste like cinnamon.