My cup runneth over with tomatoes and yellow zucchini.
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This evening I discovered a ginormous yellow zucchini in the backyard. Since I'm still following Weight Watchers, I thought, "Cool... free Points!" since zucchini has a W.W. Points value of 0. I don't normally wing it in the kitchen, but because I was ravenous after a long bike ride and it was past my normal dinner time, I grabbed a can of corn from the cupboard, a pound of lean ground turkey from the fridge and some parmesan cheese to add a sprinkling of wickedness.
While the turkey was browning, I added sea salt, cracked pepper and garlic powder and diced the zucchini, adding it to the seasoned turkey. I next added the can of corn, with liquid. Cooked it all, stirring occasionally until the zucchini looked tender and the liquid evaporated. I added enough shredded parmesan cheese to bring the total W.W. value to 30. My portion was 1/3 of the total, or 10 Points.
My son said it looked a little bit like dog food but tasted good... and that he'd always wanted to try dog food.
How do the yellow zucchini's compare to the green? Much difference in taste? Does add nice color.
ReplyDeleteMine are 'Gold Rush'... very vigorous and delicious. The flavor, even when the zucchinis are large, is very mild and a tad buttery tasting. Highly recommended.
ReplyDeleteLovely Web site and thanks for the link to Sacramento gardening. I got here, by chance, cuz every now and then I "google" "hep me hep me!" because that's just the way I feel. This is from "Reb country" in Missouri -- Callaway County -- corn, soybeans, useta be tobacco, mules, coon hounds, etc. I'm an apartment dweller in a small town but nature's close at hand. Long for the mini farm I used to have in southern Indiana, and hope to replicate the experience here some day. Years ago I was visiting a writing colleague in upper Door County, Wisc., ensconced in his converted his out-of-the-way chicken-coop studio -- almost to where Green Bay meets Lake Michigan -- and the screen door slams behind us with a cry of "Zucchini man!" and the sound of a vehicle careening away. A neighbor had dropped a huge sack of zucchini inside my friend's door. "Terrorist," said my friend Norb. I'll forward your recipe to him. He's probably getting a little desperate about now.
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