What do I do with this ?!

I had a dilemma. I went to the farmer's market over the weekend and bought zucchini/squash. I got it home and was excited to eat but then I thought, "What the $%&^! am I going to do with this?" I was hungry so after surveying the kitchen for some ideas, I remembered I had two lemons from my last grocery store run so I decided to experiment. According to the roommates, this was a success!

Zesty Zucchini (nice alliteration, huh?)

What you'll need:

Sautee pan
Wooden spoon
Knife
Cutting board

Ingredients:

Two medium sized zucchini/squash
1 clove of garlic
2 lemons
1 tbsp olive oil
a palm-ful of water (like you were going to drink out of your hand)

How to:

1. Mince (make tiny pieces) the garlic and slice the zucchini into 1/4in. slices.

2. Add the olive oil to the sautee pan and add the garlic. Turn the stove to MED (5-6) heat. Add in the zucchini.

3. While that heats up, cut one lemon in half. Take one of those halves and slide that in to 1/2in. slices or chunks. Throw that in the sautee pan, peel/rind and all!


4. Wait a little while (I made the next recipe while I waited for these to get goin') and then squeeze the unsliced half of the lemon all over the stuff in the sautee pan.

5. Add the palm-ful of water.

6. Stir this around on and off for 10 minutes or so.

7. After that, the zucchini slices should start to turn colors (darker green) and become floppy. This is good! Cute the next lemon in half and do the same as you did before--slice/chunk half and squeeze the other half.


8. Once the majority of zucchini has become pretty floppy, take the pan off of the heated burner, put in to a bowl or on a plate and eat!


Behind the scenes with zesty zucchini!

Marvelous Meatballs

Meatballs are delicious. Get ready to get your hands a little dirty. I make a ton and freeze them so come exam time, I pop them in some sauce and heat 'em up!

What you'll need

Mixing bowl
1/2 C measuring cup
Cookie sheet

Ingredients (should make about 30)

1 1/2 lb. ground beef
3/4 lb. ground pork
3/4 lb. ground turkey
2 eggs
1 C bread crumbs
2 tbsp italian seasoning
2 pinches salt
2 tbsp parsley
1/4 C milk
2 C finely chopped green pepper
1 medium onion finely chopped
olive oil cooking spray


How to:


Preheat the oven to 375 degrees.

1. Put all of the ground meat in to the mixing bowl. Mix these together with your hands.

2. Add the bread crumbs, parsley, salt and italian seasoning. Mix all of these together with your hands.

3. Add the eggs (these hold the meatballs together). Then add the milk (gives the meatball rich flavor).

4. These now may be too wet. If you touch the mixture and it drips or leaves a residue in your hands, add some more bread crumbs (do it in 1/4C increments).

5. Add the peppers and onions next and make sure these are incorporated well with everything else.


6. Olive-oil spray the cookie sheets and begin forming the meat-mixture in to normal meatball-sized balls.

7. Space these out with 3 inches between each. Fit as many as you can.


8. Put these in the oven and let these cook for 30-40 minutes. They should appear brown on top and some fat should have seeped out.

9. Keep up this process until all of the meatballs are cooked.

10. Freeze what you'd like and eat what you want!