If you forget about it, you can forget about it.

Recently I bought two beautiful zucchinis at a local market. I had plans to cook some up for Ben and to make bread out of the rest. I had lots of plans for lots of fruits and veggies that I picked up that week...peach sauce and applesauce for Ben, steamed veggies for a chicken dinner, etc. Since I had stocked up and had a lot of pealing, chopping, steaming to do I set the zucchini aside with plans to get to it the next day. Then we had company. Then Jeff had a few days off. Then I forgot. I forgot that I had put the zucchini on top of the fridge and had left them in a plastic bag. And I kept forgetting, until tonight that is. I saw that plastic bag on top of the fridge and I knew. I knew that my beautiful squash would no longer be usable. What I didn't realize was that when I lifted the bag down from the fridge my gag reflex would be activated by a bag of sloppy, soupy zucchini mush. It was seriously one of the most disgusting food disasters I have ever encountered. I'm assuming most of us have forgotten about a container of food in the fridge for a little too long or have had that loaf of bread that's been hanging around longer than we care to admit, but this was one of the more grotesque food dilemmas I have experienced. I'll spare you any further details about the appearance, transport and disposal of the zucchini mush, but I will give you this tidbit of knowledge. If you purchase zucchini, no matter how perfect, and you leave it in a plastic sack on top of the warm refrigerator and you forget about it, then you can forget about it. Gross.