Zucchini cakes

Since we have an abundance of zucchini i have made some cakes with shredded carrots. So simple one to one ratio of carrot and zucchini add 1 cup of flour after squeezing the moisture out of the veggies. Add one egg, add four till consistency is thick but still work able. Salt to taste, then fry them up, add anything to jazz them up, they are literally a blank canvas. You could try self rising flour to make it a bit more fluffy, let's not forget bacon makes everything better.

Steamed Clams and Garlic

2 pounds of clams

2 tablespoons olive oil
6 cloves of garlic
1 cup white wine (or chicken broth, if not wanting to add wine)
2 tablespoons of butter
2-3 tomatoes, chopped
1 teaspoon white pepper

Heat oil in a large sauce pan, add garlic, let sweat for 3 minutes on medium heat. Add clams, cover pan so that the clams open up. Add butter, tomato, liquid and white pepper, bring to a boil. Serve with bread.

Flanken Ribs

I made a meal for my team members today, at the suggestion of one of them, I bought a piece of meat called flanken ribs, in the flanken style of short rib, this thin cut, which is about 1/2-inch thick, goes across the bones so that each slice contains a few pieces of bone. Look for these in your meat section, I have been displeased with flak steak for years, this renews my excitement and belief that this is a good piece of meat. I also learned that it is best to rise them before cooking them as small chunks of bone can find themselves stuck on the meat and be an unpleasant chew. You can add anything to this tender morsel, just don't over cook them!

Canning

Doing some canning and went simple this time around, shearing off the corn from the cob, added 1/4 teaspoon of salt and processed it in my pressure cooker for 50 minutes at 11lbs of pressure. I am going to do grilled corn next weekend.

Italian subs

Ok, I have been a health nut for the past 2 months and it has paid off, but we took the night of and had these wonderful Italian sandwiches.

1 pound hot Italian sausage, browned
1 medium onion, sliced
1 yellow pepper and red, sliced
2 cloves of garlic, diced
1 tablespoon of Italian seasoning
1 tablespoon of honey
1 tablespoon tomato paste
Salt and pepper to taste
melted cheese of choice

I put the onions and the peppers in a large skillet, sweated these down for 7-10 mins, adding the garlic at the end. I chopped the sausage up and split the skillet in 2 one side meat one side veggie, browned the meat. Once the meat was cooked through, I combined and added the tomato paste and honey. you can make rolls or buy good sturdy rolls from the store, add cheese on top, broil if your using shredded cheese. We used cheese in a can or block... stinkin delicious