Cleaning out the fridge Pt 2
I'm going out of town next week, so I'm trying to get by eating the things in my fridge and not going shopping. There's also this thing called "being poor" so really cleaning out the fridge recipes happen all the time.
Earlier, I bought some red potatoes, a sweet potato, and some zucchini (technically a calabaza mexicana) to round out the regular potatoes, carrots and celery I had to make roast veggies.
Roast veggies is some serious comfort food. Serious.
Here it is in all its leftover glory. However, do you notice zucchini in there? Nope. I forgot it.
So I had to do something with that zucchini. I decided to try stuffing it. This is just something my tired brain came up with as I was falling asleep, so god knows. There are probably better recipes out there.
Anyway, here we go. I used some kale left over from this recipe, the rest of the sweet potato and some pine nuts (which my mom gave me at Christmas.)
Not pictured, but also included are some garlic, gorgonzola and some basil from window sill plants (no onions because I ran out.)
I was a little concerned about how I was to dig out all that zucchini meat (which also went into the "stuffing"), but it turned out to be pretty easy if you made hashtag patterns with a little knife, like so:
Anyway, I sauteed all that in a skillet (ahem, frying pan), and then into the oven it went:
My kitchen is ghetto as fuck. There is a thermometer in there because there is no internal temperature gauge. 350 degrees for about 20-30 minutes (listen: this is the kitchen of imprecision. Plus, you may want your zucchini/calabaza mexicana to be firmer/softer).
Viola! Stuffed zucchini (with basil plants in the background):
The gorgonzola had been stored in the freezer, which gave it a bit of a grainy texture, but overall, the flavors were balanced well, even just half was filling and (although I have no way of backing this up), it seems like it's probably pretty healthy.
Some other fillings that would be good: wild/brown rice lentils or beans carrots peas marinara sauce broccoli quinoa
Happy fridge cleaning!
-Emily
