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July 21, 2007
Filet of Yellow Zucchini with Wine Soaked Spring Onions
Here's another way to love and honor your zucchini. It's also a great Pick-Your-Own-Protein dish, as I did it with Quorn and eggwhites but it would be lovely with chicken, shrimp, scallops, tofu, or turkey.
I had a giant yellow zucchini from the Farmers' Market, so I sliced it longways, forming two zucchini filets. Then I finely diced my sweet spring onion and simmered it in one of my strong Italian reds for half an hour, stirring frequently. You could simmer for less time if you weren't concerned about cooking down the alcohol. I carefully arranged Quorn tenders and eggwhite chunks on top of the zucchinis, then topped with the wine/onion mixture. Finally, I topped the zucchini filets with 56 g fat free mozzarella. I chopped up a large amount of cauliflower and surrounded the zucchini filets with cauliflower on a large plate. Just before dinner, I'll pop them in the microwave for two minutes to lightly steam the veggies and melt the cheese, then I'll top with one teaspoon flax oil. MR is also getting a ricotta sundae on the side with hazelnuts, hazelnut oil and Walden Farms chocolate syrup.
You may notice that I'm cooking with fewer eggwhites. That's cause there's a new study on methionine restriction (not protein restriction) that MR is concerned about, so we're consuming fewer eggwhites. I don't have time to go into the details, and my brain is too shot from work to bother explaining it to you now, but I will get around to it eventually.
For now, go worship your zucchini, or zucchini in general if you have none.
But beware of zucchini envy... it frequently strikes people who lack gardens or convenient farmers' markets...
Posted by april at July 21, 2007 8:21 PM
Comments
Wow, that's enough to make a girl re-think her anti-zucchini sentiments. we've had it simple today--egg white scramble for brekky, a bit of takeaway sushi from Wild Oats after hitting the bookstore, and I've been (carefully!)munching down some yummy homegrown tomatoes from our co-op while reading Harry Potter. Life is good. :-)
Posted by: Sarah at July 21, 2007 5:32 PM
Now egg whites are being rationed?! My God, what a living hell MR is in! The irony is that, for all this obsession on living forever, you can go out and get hit by a car tomorrow (or today).
I'm all for a low-calorie, healthy diet, and this bog and April's recipes are a great help (thanks April!); but this obsessing over the "latest study" in a bid to live forever is un Christian and mentally unhealthy.
Posted by: Sandy at July 22, 2007 6:35 AM
Sandy: Sure, there's no guarantees in life, but you control what you can and not worry about what you can't, that's just sensible. I really don't think April is obsessing as being enthusiastic about CR and sharing details about how she (and MR) practices it are much of what this blog is about, and I, for one, enjoy that. It's hardly mentally unhealthy to do things which help health. Also, making the claim that reducing methionine consumption is somehow un-Christian is just plain ridiculous. One could just as easily make the claim that not doing everything one can to live as long as possible to do God's work on Earth is un-Christian.. I understand that, and I don't even claim to be Christian.
Posted by: Gregg at July 22, 2007 10:24 AM