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

Perfect summer recipe :: Stuffed Peppers!!

Hello everyone,

Summer is the perfect time to take advantage of all of the fresh produce that's coming out in the stores, or even better, at your nearest farmer's market!

When David was here (I know that was awhile ago, but I completely forgot about posting this recipe until now!) we took advantage of the fresh produce that was seriously over flowing at the farmer's market and whipped this up for the familia for dinner!

And though we already really like cooking together, having an awesome kitchen equipped with lots of marble counter space and an industrial grade gas stove made cooking sooo much more fun!  haha  oh the perks of cooking at home rather than at our dearly-loved-but-extremely-tiny-apartment...

It was so easy to put together, and a huge hit with the fam!

so here is the easy peasy, Roasted Stuffed Peppers recipe!!

Roasted Stuffed Peppers

Ingredients:

6 red bell peppers (or any other color of your choice)
1 jar of spaghetti sauce
shredded cheddar and/or pepper jack cheese
Parmesan cheese
1 Tbsp olive oil
2-3 cloves of garlic, minced
1 Tbs ginger, minced
1 Tbs Italian Seasoning
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp black pepper
1/2 onion, diced
1.5 cup diced tomatoes
1.5 cup diced mushrooms
1.5 cup diced cauliflower
1 cup diced steak (you could substitute this with ground beef or you could leave this out completely for a vegetarian version!)

Let's Cook!

1. Wash your bell peppers thoroughly, both inside and out, by cutting the top portion of the pepper.  But make sure you keep the top part so that you can use it as a lid!

here they are, mostly unseeded!

2.  Preheat your oven at 350 degrees.

3.  Heat up your olive oil in a pan on medium heaet, and add the garlic, ginger, and the diced onions to cook.

4.  Once the onions take on the clear-esq look, add the chopped mushrooms, cauliflower, and tomatoes!  (oh, and don't forget to add your choice of meat during this step as well if you want a non-vegetarian version) You should only have to sautee them for about 10 minutes total.

5.  Now, it's time to make your pepper live up to its name!  Stuffing time!  I laid down a layer of the mixture above, then a spoon of spaghetti sauce, and then a layer of shredded cheese.  Repeat the process once more, and you should end up with a fully stuffed pepper!

6. Once your pepper is stuffed to the max, sprinkle on some Parmesan cheese, and attempt to put the 'lid' back on.

7.  pop them in the oven for 30-35 minutes, and you should end up with these beauties!

8.  Serve them to the hungrily awaiting familia!  and enjoy them with some salad and perhaps some bread!

I hope you enjoy!!
Thanks for stopping by!
--Janny