Fritters are a the perfect summertime dish to help use up veggies from your garden. They’re super versatile – you can substitute any veggies that you like or have on hand. Serve them as appetizers, or they make a delicious side dish along with fish or chicken off the grill, but in the summer when I’m in the mood for a light meal I think they make a fantastic lunch or dinner by themselves. I’m sending this recipe to Reeni of Cinnamon & Spice for her Side Dish Showdown. July’s theme is Anything Goes! I’m also sending this recipe off to Chaya of Sweet and Savory for […]...
Meals in Minutes — White Bean & Zucchini Soup
Just a quick reminder that tomorrow we’ll start taking submissions for your Easter recipes on All Through the Year Cheer…there will be a fantastic prize for the winner! You can submit any recipe that says Easter to you. Brandy and I can’t wait to see what you all came up with. Also, be sure to check out the lovely Krista’s fantastic Nature’s Path Granola Bar Giveaway! When it starts to get warmer out I’m always on the lookout for healthy meals that keep me full and satisfied but don’t sit heavily in my stomach. This soup is hearty enough to fill you up but […]...
Baked Zucchini Fries with Homemade Buttermilk-Yogurt Ranch Dressing
I know I promised a few recipes with yogurt this week, in honor of the Blogger Secret Ingredient. It came at a good time because I was planning on making baked zucchini fries, and what goes better with zucchini fries than ranch dressing? And ranch dressing goes perfectly with almost anything I can think of (raw veggies, crackers, sandwiches, grilled meats, etc.) so I always make extra. The zucchini is really just a guise so I don’t just eat the ranch by itself. A Note on the Buttermilk: If you don’t have buttermilk you can make your own. Pour ½ c of milk into […]...
Turkey-Vegetable Meatball Bombers
Depending on where you’re from, you might know this type of sandwich as something other than a bomber, such as a submarine (or sub for short), hoagie, hero, blimpie, grinder, or po-boy. Anyway, it doesn’t matter since a meatball sandwich by another other name would taste as delicious! These sandwiches are picky-eater pleasers…my husband (who typically will only touch a steak sub) actually loved these meatballs…of course he wanted his bomber without cheese, but at least he was eating turkey-veggie meatballs! (Yes, for some reason my hubby is able to consume slimy green soup without any qualms, but he has a problem when it comes to cheese…go […]...
Zucchini Curry
Does anyone else feel like they have more zucchini right now than they know what to do with? I made this dish last week…it was inspired by two things: (1) I had a bowl full of zucchini pulp leftover from making stuffed zucchini, and (2) I was craving a curry dish. This turned out to be really good, although I must admit chicken makhani is still my favorite Indian dish. I would say this dish is somewhat of a cross between channa masala and baigan bharta (only with zucchini instead of eggplant). Like curry powder, garam masala is a blend of several spices, and […]...
Arabic Stuffed Zucchini (Kousa Mahshi)
I learned to make this dish while visiting my mother-in-law in Syria. She is a truly amazing woman; she excels at whatever she puts her hands to, and of course she is a fantastic cook! Since I’m a beginner at speaking Arabic and she’s a beginner at speaking English, our time together in the kitchen involved a lot of pointing, gesturing, nodding, and excitement when the other person finally understood what was being communicated. But that just made it all the more memorable. In Syria, the zucchini is a lot smaller than the zucchini typically found here (a 6” zucchini there is pretty big!), so […]...