Friday, August 14, 2009

Movin' zucchini!

The harvest of garden tomatoes! They're beginning to rival those zucchini! Pictured are cherry tomatoes, chocolate cherry tomatoes, mini Roma's, standard Roma's, early girls, and green zebra-striped.
A close up of the green zebra striped and the chocolate cherries. I'm in tomato heaven!
The chocolate zucchini cake (3 zucchini) and 2 loaves of zucchini harvest bread (2 zucchini).

For dinner we made Parmesan oven 'fried' zucchini rounds (6 more garden zucchini), which we served up with a big bowl of cherry tomatoes (garden) and a dish of tortellini in a sage (garden) cream sauce. Desert was cherry plums from the farmer's market. This was delicious and super easy!

Julie Ann's Multicultural Oven 'fried" Zucchini Rounds

6 medium zucchini (or yellow summer squash or combo), washed and sliced into 1/4 inch rounds
1 cup of milk
1.5 cups of flour

and now pick a cuisine, only one though.

(In parenthesis is the suggested serving sauce. Don't add this to the recipe. Serve it with the cooked rounds at the table, if desired)

Italian:
3/4 cup shredded Parmesan cheese
dash of cayenne pepper
(warm marinara sauce)

Indian:
1 Tbsp of curry powder
(plain yogurt and chutney)

Mexican:
1 Tbsp of mild chili powder
or
1/2 tsp of chipotle chili powder
(avocado and salsa)

Chinese:
1 tsp of Chinese 5-spice
(soy sauce or any favorite Asian sauce. The future farmers like sweet and sour)

How to:
1) Preheat oven to 450 degrees.
2) Cover multiple cookie sheets (large flat pans) with foil. Spray with nonstick spray
3) Mix flour with the cuisine seasoning of your choice in a large bowl.
4) Pour milk in deep, small bowl.
5) Dip zucchini (or squash) rounds into milk, a few at a time.
6) Then immediately dunk into flour mix, coating both sides.
7) Place in a single layer on cookie sheets.
8) Cook for 10 minutes, then flip and cook other side an additional 10 minutes.
9) Serve with cuisine complementary sauce if desired.

Warning: This makes a heaping bunch of rounds. Cut recipe down to your size or be prepared to either feed a crowd, eat zucchini for a week, or feeze a bunch for noshing on later. Enjoy!

Zucchini 100:
73 + 7 (harvested yesterday) = 80 - 11 used in cooking today and - 2 given to our neighbor = 67 to go!

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