Main Courses featuring Vegetables.

Main courses featuring vegetables: Stuffed Peppers, Stuffed Squashes, Spaghetti Squash, and more. Make vegetables the important part of your meal.

Stir-Fried Turkey and Mushrooms on Spaghetti Squash

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Spaghetti Squash, take III I think I’m getting the hang of these squashes. We were very happy with it as a simple vegetable, but I wanted to try it a bit more creatively. We were very happy with this effort as well. The only problem is that the mushroom soy sauce is so lovely and … Continue reading…

Acorn Squash Stuffed with Ham and Quinoa

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We’re still having beautiful, sunny, dry days but the nights have been cool enough to use the oven. Which is good as we have a lot of acorn, butternut and spaghetti squashes to eat. I didn’t grow up eating squash – either winter or summer. My mother was not an adventurous cook or eater. Our … Continue reading…

Stuffed Zucchini, Taco Style

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I got this idea from Pinterest. Naturally, I have no idea who, what, when or where. I’m sure I pinned it somewhere, but I didn’t take the time to look. I know myself well enough to know that I would have changed the recipe, anyway. It’s really the idea that caught my interest. As to … Continue reading…

Stuffed Baby Acorn Squash

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The last few acorn squash that formed were small, about the size of a baseball. Unlike zucchini, which can be picked and used very young, winter squash have to stay on the vine until fully ripe. Unlike zucchini, they don’t keep on growing until they’re monsters. The little ones were so cute – I just … Continue reading…

Beef and Mushroom Stuffed Peppers; the update

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Remember the old ‘Stuffed Green Pepeprs’?  The ones that were over-cooked, mushy, slightly bitter and everyone left on their plate?  These aren’t those. These aren’t even close to those. There is no faux cheese, no tomato sauce and no Minute Rice. Beef and Mushroom Stuffed Peppers Total time: 40 minutes Ingredients: 6oz (180gr) ground beef … Continue reading…

Zucchini (Courgette) Stuffed with Sausage and Tomatoes

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I can’t buy bulk sausage. I can buy lots of different flavors of sausages. And I can buy sausage for stuffing tomatoes and sausage for stuffing zucchini but not just plain old bulk sausage. I bought sausage for stuffing zucchini. The photo showed zucchini, cut in half and hollowed, with the sausage filling the cavity … Continue reading…