I don’t feel much like cooking when the temperatures climb above 38C (100F). Actually, I don’t feel much like eating, but one must carry on….. With the meat and potatoes handled by mon mari, outside on the barbecue, I can usually manage to do a quick stir-fry of something from the garden. And there is almost always summer squash of some sort and chard in the garden. I say almost … Continue reading →
I love baked spiralized potatoes or butternut squash. I’ve had some fun with spiralized carrots and the sweet potatoes are great. ‘Zoodles’ have always been a little more challenging for me. The other vegetables tend to get crispy whereas the zucchini has to be watched closely so it doesn’t get watery. It can go from perfectly al dente to watery to overcooked in a minute. That doesn’t mean I haven’t … Continue reading →
After I made the Pasta with Goat Cheese the other day I had a bit of goat cheese left. We were in the middle of a heatwave and I was sadly lacking in imagination. I decided to do the same thing but with zucchini noodles rather than pasta. That was good, too and made a nice, quick and easy, first course. Again, I was too lazy to even get out … Continue reading →
I said I was going to and I did. I bought a spiralizer. For those of you who do not know, a spiralizer is a perfectly unnecessary gadget that makes long strands of varying width out of vegetables. The idea, of course, is that these long strands of vegetables would be the perfect substitute for pasta or even rice (if you then cut up the long strands into very, very … Continue reading →
Do we all become our parents? Maybe not always in the big ways, but in the little ways? I used to happily spend money on whatever latest gadget happened to be the current favorite. My mother would look at it and say: ‘Why do you need that?’ Now I look at the gadget and ask myself the same question. These are ‘zucchini noodles’ made with a sharp knife. Zucchini Noodles … Continue reading →
