Zucchini bakies
This recipe from vegweb.com is called "Healthy Baked Zucchini Fries". A glaring misnomer as you can see. So I prefer to call them 'zucchini bakies'. They were really good. Crunchy on the outside and baked nice and soft on the inside.
However, there are a few things I would have done differently.
1. (This goes for cooking in general) Be sure to have all ingredients on hand before diving headfirst into a recipe. I have a tendency to be confident in my ingredient list and then things come to a grinding halt as a realize that I only have ONE tablespoon of apple cider vinegar and oh my god I need three!! And I end up cursing my understocked self and hoping a neighbor has whatever item I lack. (Yes, I'm living in the south and we actually call upon neighbors for such things. Crazy, eh).
In this case, the zucchini bakies recipe calls for 4 cups of breadcrumbs. I figured I'd only need 2 but nary a breadcrumb could be found in the pantry. So I ended up toasting bread and chopping it up frantically. I couldn't go back at that point because I'd cut up the zucchini already. Which brings me to my next point.
2. I'd cut the zucchini just a bit thinner than shown here.
3. I'd use finer breadcrumbs as I think they'd coat the zucchini a bit better.
4. While this recipe is simple, it does take time to cut the zucchini and bread each piece. Something to keep in mind.
Cheers!
However, there are a few things I would have done differently.
1. (This goes for cooking in general) Be sure to have all ingredients on hand before diving headfirst into a recipe. I have a tendency to be confident in my ingredient list and then things come to a grinding halt as a realize that I only have ONE tablespoon of apple cider vinegar and oh my god I need three!! And I end up cursing my understocked self and hoping a neighbor has whatever item I lack. (Yes, I'm living in the south and we actually call upon neighbors for such things. Crazy, eh).
In this case, the zucchini bakies recipe calls for 4 cups of breadcrumbs. I figured I'd only need 2 but nary a breadcrumb could be found in the pantry. So I ended up toasting bread and chopping it up frantically. I couldn't go back at that point because I'd cut up the zucchini already. Which brings me to my next point.
2. I'd cut the zucchini just a bit thinner than shown here.
3. I'd use finer breadcrumbs as I think they'd coat the zucchini a bit better.
4. While this recipe is simple, it does take time to cut the zucchini and bread each piece. Something to keep in mind.
Cheers!
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