so that's where they went

The recipe called for 3 cups of grated zucchini. I substituted half raisins and half shredded coconut for the cup of chopped walnuts to be thrown in at the end of mixing. (It's not pie, though I baked it in a pie plate and it *looks* unnervingly like pie. But I still like zucchini bread on the sweet side.) Nuts are big lumpy things that distribute through slurry reasonably well. Raisins and chocolate chips are almost as cooperative. But little shredded things need to be mixed. A shred of coconut looks and feels remarkably similar to a shred of zucchini, when they're both being mixed in a quickbread batter. And of course part of the objective, with quickbreads, is to avoid overmixing.

For the last several days, I've been eating wedges of zucchini bread from relatively coconut-poor regions. I didn't realize they were coconut-depleted regions. I just thought other flavors dominated. Now, I have a piece from a very coconut-rich region. It's nearly coconut cake. I like coconut. I'm just startled.