Zucchini

Chicken Piccata – Because lemon is a VERY good thing

October 18, 2012

Pretty much my whole life I assumed that the “piccata” part of chicken piccata had to do with the lemon flavor. Turns out, piccata is the method of preparation of the dish and has nothing to do with the lemony goodness we’ve all come to love from that name. Piccata simply means preparing a meat [...]

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Recipe Redo: Zucchini Fries Become Chips

October 5, 2012

Sometimes when I go to make a recipe I’ve made before, I find an even better way to make it. Such was the case last weekend when I decided to make the zucchini fries that I love so much. Seriously, what could be bad about zucchini, panko and parmesan cheese? Nothing! The first few times [...]

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Savoring the Last Bites of Summer: Yellow & Green Salad

September 27, 2012

Zucchini has long been my favorite vegetable. It likely has something to do with my mother making zucchini fudge cake when I was a kid. Mix chocolate with anything and I’m a fan. When I was a little girl we spent a few years living in southeastern Pennsylvania. While we were there my parents had [...]

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Because Even A Zucchini Makes a Good Fry: Zucchini Fries

September 21, 2011

I <3 zucchini. I always have. When I was a little girl we lived in rural PA for a spell. My mother had a HUGE vegetable garden and we grew different types of squash. My dad used to swear that he could hear the zucchini growing at night because we’d always have such an abundance [...]

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