Another First...

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I did something new again today...

I cooked zucchini!

OK that sounds really lame, but seriously, I've never in my life bought a zucchini, grown a zucchini, cut a zucchini or cooked a zucchini! I have eaten some, but not a lot. They have been more readily available in a few of the markets here recently and so I thought, hey, what the heck, I'm going to buy one and see what I can make with it.

So tonight was the night. I took the long, green, speckled veggie out of my delightful fridge and put it on the counter. And then I wasn't sure what to do. Do I peel it? No, I didn't think so. So I just started slicing it up into circles. And then I cut them into quarters... and then I added it to the rest of the veggies I had prepared for my chicken/veggie stir fry (which... incidentally was fabulously friendly to my food diary... less than 300 calories in a 1 1/2 cup serving!).

After plating the stir fry and sitting down to consume it (I was starving!), I tasted the chicken first since it had been a few days since I had chicken (we ran out... my mental inventory sheet somehow went blank when I was at the store), and then I eagerly dove into the zucchini. It was delicious. I was very proud of myself. A beautiful green vegetable, healthy, low in calories and perfectly cooked. YUM-O as my good friend Rachael Ray would say!

So.... after you buy your pineapple... go buy a zucchini! Good and good for you :) (ha ha ha)

~lk

Comments

Kim G. said…
Goodness - can't believe all the time you were in Oregon you didn't cook a zucchini? Good for you for trying new things! When our neighbors gave us giant ones they grew in their garden, Brad and JT carved them out and made boats. Great bath toys - for a few days anyway . . .

Do you get the new Rachel Ray tv show in India? I've only seen it once but it was pretty fun.
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