Spicy Zucchini Fritters

When zucchini starts appearing at the farmers markets, it REALLY starts appearing. The same can be said about homegrown zucchini. In fact, those backyard garden zucchini can often top five pounds and at least two feet long. leave a zucchini on the vine a day too long and whoa! You’ve got yourself a baseball bat-sized vegetable.

Zucchini fritters

Zucchini fritters

When you’re dealing with such large zucchini, simply slicing them isn’t always the best idea. The size really makes for some tough slices so I like to shred them. If you’ve got one of those large zucchinis, you can shred the whole thing and make both zucchini bread and these spicy zucchini fritters. Continue reading Spicy Zucchini Fritters

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Zucchini Chips

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When I’m trying to learn to like a new vegetable, there are two go-to preparations that I always use. I’ll pair the vegetable with cheese or I’ll fry it. Since I don’t have the greatest track record with liking zucchini, I decided to try frying it. We’ll have a recipe for zucchini fritters soon, but the first recipe I made with the zucchini in my CSA this week was zucchini chips.

I was inpsired to try these zucchini chips by a local sandwich joint – Homegrown Sandwiches. They serve veggie fries as their signature side dish. We ordered them this weekend and they were excellent. So I decided to try my hand at chips.

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Homemade Beer Battered Fish and Chips

People have called us adventurous before, when it comes to our recipes. But, you know what, it isn’t really what we set out to do.

Battered Fish and Chips

Sure, we want to try things we haven’t tried; new recipes, a random new piece of vegetable or meat. But generally, we aren’t looking for adventure.

Case in point, last weeks Oysters and Cheese in a Pancetta Cup. That recipe was the result of a Google search on things we had in the fridge, namely oysters and pancetta. We didn’t set out on that to do anything wild [...]

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