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September 3, 2010 in
Appetizers, Frugal Tips, Gluten Free, Healthy Fare, Side Dishes and Vegan Recipes.
Tags: garden produce, garden recipe, grilled recipe, grilled vegetable recipe, grilled zucchini recipe, kids favorite, kids food, kids recipe, kids tip, recipe zucchini, salsa recipe, salsa verde recipe, summer squash, summer squash recipe, zucchini recipe.
Charred Zucchini Salsa Verde served over Cottage Cheese
It’s the end of summer – time for a foodie zucchini festival!
With gardens overflowing with zucchini and several of my neighbors anonymously leaving large summer squashes at my doorstep and then running before I could catch them, I decided to char the zukes on the grill and blend up some salsa verde. Verdict: zucchini and chiles: a match made in heaven!
(Nostalgic Note: I used to eat salsa as a child served over cottage cheese (pictured above). I know, I know. It sounds weird, but the salty mild cottage cheese pairs perfectly with spicy salsa. Yum! Serve any salsa this way, especially if you have kids!)
Yes, Fab Frugal Food and zucchini go way back. Check out our Zucchini Crudo Salad, Wholegrain Zucchini Cakes, or our Oven Fried Zucchini Crisps.
And, everyone knows in their bones that zucchini should be on our “must-eat-more-of” lists. They are packed with nutrients and yet are low-calorie and low-carb. And few things are more frugal than zucchini in season. So. What’s not to love?
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Fab Frugal Food Sassy Smoky Salsa featured on Grow Your Own, www.andreasrecipes.com
I recently discovered Andrea’s Recipes, a great blog that promotes growing your own fruits and veggies. It also promotes bartering, foraging, gleaning and all things frugal when it comes to gathering produce.
Andrea’s blog features great tips and recipes for making use of yours (or your neighbor’s!) home grown produce. If you take just a few minutes and check out her most recent recipe roundup post, she has recipes from food bloggers all over the world. The recipes look amazing, and I am thankful I discovered this blog just in the days that my garden is overflowing! Here are some of the latest from her recipe roundup: Vegetable Tian, Sassy Smoky Salsa (our very own fab frugal food recipe!), Garden Spaghetti, Pear Custard Pie, Tomato Basil Bread and Lemon Verbena Madelines. Wow!
My hat’s off to you, Andrea, and may you blog forever!
– posted by Donna
“It’s difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.”
– Lewis Grizzard
Each summer I can hardly wait until I start seeing red globes peeking out from between the green leaves of our tomato plants.
There is a fabulous blog celebrating home-grown goodness – Andrea Meyers at Andreas Recipes – she hosts a twice-monthly “Grow Your Own” feature where she highlights recipes from food blogs that feature cooks using ingredients they have grown (or foraged or were gifted) themselves. This salsa post was featured on her blog – check it out to see this and other “GYO” goodness!
There are a million salsa recipes out there, and I have tried my share of them over the last 30 years. Trust me on this – I grew up a few miles from the Mexican border and I have eaten hundreds of salsas. If I am a connoisseur of any one thing, it has to be salsa! This Roasted Tomato Salsa recipe is my absolute all-time favorite! Roasting about half of the tomatoes quickly at a very high heat give a wonderful roasted smoky flavor, but keeping half of the tomatoes raw gives it the perfect freshness and texture. And, the chipotle chile powder and smoked paprika are delicious in combination with tomatoes.
Don’t skip the EVOO. Olive oil used with tomatoes improves BOTH their flavor and health benefits exponentially.
I love to make gallons (literally) of our family’s favorite salsa and then cruise around the neighborhood like “The Salsa Fairy” handing out pints to friends or leaving them on doorsteps as a surprise treat. Everyone raves about salsa that has roasted tomatoes in the recipe!
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