BBQ zucchini pizza!

Hello everyone!

Sorry it's been awhile since my last post..  Life has been pretty chill around here since I'm the only one here with my parents.  It's just been a lot of eating yummy food, practicing, driving mommy around since she was still in a cast until yesterday, etc etc.  

Anyway, since my last post was full of incredibly yummy, but definitely not vegetarian, 삼겹살, I thought I'd post a vegetarian recipe to follow  =)   See?  still keeping it in the spirit of this post about watching 'Forks over Knives'  ;)

so here is the super simple recipe I came up with with a little bit of Pinterest inspiration!

BBQ Zucchini Pizza!!

Ingredients
1 zucchini
Your favorite BBQ sauce
toppings of your choice :: I chose thinly sliced green peppers, onions, and mushrooms.
and your choice of cheese!


Let's Bake these babies!

1.  Preheat your oven to 375 and spray your baking sheet with a non-stick spray.

2.  Cut your zucchini length wise (perhaps an eighth of an inch thick), lay it on your baking sheet, and spread some BBQ sauce over them.  You don't need a lot since BBQ sauces tend to be pretty potent!

3.  Put all of your toppings on the zucchini slices, and top it off with your choice of cheese.  We chose some pepper jack cheese cubes and a shredded cheese blend.

4.  Then, all you have to do is pop these babies in for 18-20 minutes, or until the cheese is melted and golden brown before you can dig in!

5.  and voila!

It was so easy, so good, and even the non vegetarians in our family loved it!  Perhaps because it was bathed in golden, melted cheese?   haha

I hope you have a wonderful weekend, and if you feel lazy this weekend, but still want to eat some homemade goodness, this is definitely a good choice!  ;)
Thanks for stopping by!
--Janny

Zucchini Fries!!

Hello everyone!

Last night, we decided to try one of the recipes on my Pinterest boards.  My 'food' board where I pin interesting looking foods I want to try keeps growing and growing each day, and my 'tried and loved' board where I pin the ones I've 'tried and loved' is having difficulty keeping up.  This one, Zucchini Fries, looked really appetizing, so we made this last night, and because we loved it so much, we made it again today! This is definitely going onto the 'tried and loved' board today.

Per usual, I made some changes to the recipe, so here is the updated version!

Zucchini Fries!

Ingredients

2-3 medicum sized zucchinis

1/4 cup whole wheat flour

1 Egg

1 Tbs water

1 1/2 cup Roasted GarlicJapanese style Panko breadcrumbs

1/2 tsp garlic salt

1/4 tsp cayenne pepper

sprinkle of black pepper

1.  Preheat oven to 425 and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.

2.  Cut up the zucchini into thin 3 inch sticks.  I cut it into 3 inch chunks first, and then cut the zucchini logs into 8 'pizza slices'  ;)

3.  Place the flour and the cut up zucchini sticks into a large zipper bag and shake-a-shake!

this part is really fun actually, both for the shaker and the audience  haha

4.  Whisk the egg and water together in a small dish.

5.  Mix together the bread crumbs and the spices (garlic, cayenne pepper, and black pepper) in another shallow dish.

6.  Set up an assembly line of zucchini, egg, Panko mixture, and the baking sheet.

7.  Dip the flour coated zucchini in the egg, roll it around in the Panko mixture, then place it on the baking sheet.

8.  Bake for 20-22 minutes, until golden brown!

9.  Enjoy with some poppy seed dressing, or honey mustard, or really just about anything you like!

 I hope you enjoy this as much as we did, and Happy Monday!!
--Janny