Something rare and beautiful
Me, cooking!! Tricked ya! Hahahahahahaha
A few weeks ago, I was sitting in the staffroom at lunchtime, sniffing at other people’s food (as you do!), when I discovered something that I have often marvelled at: zucchini slice. It looked delicious. It smelled tantalising (like that word? You know you do). I was impressed.
Last week, I was in Sydney. I don’t think I ate a vegetable all week. Unless baked beans for breakfast counts. Or French Fries. When we were doing the groceries on Saturday, I felt a sudden, desperate urge to buy vegetables. When I came home, I felt a sudden, desperate urge to actually cook and eat them! Normally they sit in the crisper until they rot, then they go in the bin and I tut, tut, over the waste.
What can I make? I mused. I jumped online, and went to my favourite drool-site: Taste. I dredged up a recipe for zucchini slice, and what do you know? Quick, easy, less than 100 ingredients, happy days! Could anything be easier, tastier, or healthier? NB: I ‘tweaked’ the recipe a tad…
Ingredients
2 zucchini, grated
1 carrot, grated
1 potato, grated
1 onion, finely chopped or grated
6 eggs, beaten
1 cup self raising flour
1 cup shredded cheese
salt and pepper to taste
Method
Preheat the oven to 180C. Line a 2 litre casserole dish with baking paper. Place the eggs in a large bowl and beat. Feels good, doesn’t it? Sorry. Place the veges in and mix, place the flour in and mix some more. Add salt and pepper to taste. Pour into the prepared dish and sprinkle the cheese over the top. Don’t eat the cheese!!!! Bake for around 35-40 minutes. I do recommend testing with a skewer, because if it’s runny in the middle it is not ready and will taste like shit. Seriously.
The best thing about this? You can eat it hot or cold. Mollie has been taking it to school in lieu of sandwiches! Gotta love that! No photos, it’s ALL GONE!
Seriously woman, cookery, you’re giving me cookery?
Comment by Xbox4NappyRash — June 4, 2008 @ 9:34 pm
Oh, you’ve cut me deeply this time Xman. I shan’t recover…
Comment by Administrator — June 4, 2008 @ 9:43 pm
oh i love zucchini slice and I haven’t seen one with potatoe …got to try this
Comment by Trish — June 4, 2008 @ 11:59 pm
We do ours with 4 eggs and half a cup of oil, no carrot or potato, but throw in an extra zuchinni and a cup of diced bacon. Yum. It freezes well too, so I wrap slices up and the kids can get them out to defrost/heat for snacks.
Comment by Bettina — June 5, 2008 @ 11:00 am
Zuchinni slice, with or without the foul cheese?
LOL
I love a good slice…mmm…slice
Don’t worry about XBox, he’s going around bagging all the recipe posts.
Comment by tiff — June 5, 2008 @ 12:30 pm
mmmmmm, yummy. Ignore BoxBoy he gets all shirty when he realises that he is hanging out with housewives.
Comment by Kelley — June 8, 2008 @ 2:33 pm
Xbox is envious of zucchinis.
Looks yummy. Thanks for posting that.
Comment by anja — June 8, 2008 @ 6:29 pm
Oh I love zucchini slice and haven’t made it for ages - I think I lost my recipe. SO I shall unashamedly nick yours! Bonus
Comment by Suze — June 9, 2008 @ 2:16 pm
mmmm i will nick that recipe thanks..
Comment by frogpondsrock — June 10, 2008 @ 9:45 pm