More Great DIY Tips and Tricks.

Start out with a whole bunch of zucchini!...or just 2 large ones from the garden should be fine.

That’s how many I used to fill a medium-sized corningware casserole.That’s probably plenty.Once you’ve cleaned off all the dirt, dust, and fluff from the zucchini that you’re using, chop off the ends and then slice the zucchini into rounds that are about 1/8″ thick.. Now, in my humble-ish opinion, scalloped-anything really needs to have onion in it.

I know not everyone agrees with me because I recently bought a pre-made frozen pan of scalloped potatoes thinking that it would be easy and yummy to throw in the oven one night if things were crazy and busy and there was no onion in that.I was pretty horrified to say the least.

It just tasted bland and pastey to me.

So I add in onion.. Thinly-sliced white onion to be exact!Because this paint takes only one coat to cover, you end up using a lot less paint than what you might be used to.. We gathered everything together first, then we got to it!.

We added about equal parts of Black Dog and Clean Canvas, and then mixed in a little bit of a brown color called “Dirt” to warm up our color a bit.. We mixed the color in an old tupperware container so we could cover it up and save this color for future use when we were done..When you’re mixing your own paint, it’s really important to mix a really big batch because it will be almost impossible to replicate that same color if you run out halfway through your project!.

The next thing we did was paint!.Another wonderfully-amazing feature of this paint is that there’s no prep work needed!