Stuffed courgette!

R. and I are lucky to have friends who live in the country and tend a large and beautiful vegetable garden. On our last visit there, our friends gave us enough fresh produce for the rest of the month! Corn, cucumbers, tomatoes, fresh herbs and of course zucchini, as well as their flowers! The flowers were eaten that same day, as they are fragile. I stuffed them with a ricotta-basil mix, battered them, and then fried them up- they were delicious!

Today we ate the zucchini. It was a large specimen, so I decided to stuff it. Filled with mushrooms, onions, fresh corn and goat feta, it made for a healthy and tasty meal!

Empañadas

I think that I have already mentioned that I love cooking and eating. I also love to try out new recipes. I am an avid reader of food blogs. I love them for their beautiful food photography and for their great recipes- although not all of them are worth a try at home! However, more often than not, I fall on a great recipe that is not too complicated to make and does not require exotic ingredients, and I bookmark it for a day where I am feeling adventurous and wanting to try something new. Yesterday was such a day. R. and I meant to leave the house to go shoe shopping, but we never ended up leaving and I stayed in my PJ's the whole day, which is not a bad thing, but well, it is not a great thing either (productivity wise). So I thought I would compensate for the lack of outing with a new recipe: empañadas!!! Jules, from stonesoup, wrote about empañadas a little while ago and when I read the post, I thought: "This I will have to try soon!" That day came yesterday! The dough needed is easy to make and is easy to work with, the filling is flexible (I used the recipe provided by Jules as a very loose guideline) and the end result is delicious! Worth a try!

Typical Thursday night dinner!

I love cooking and baking! I enjoy creating nice meals, mixing ingredients, improvising, going along with what is in the fridge at the moment. And of course, I love eating what I make (and what others make too)!!!

Making pizza might sound intimidating, but it really is quite easy. The dough itself only takes a few minutes to make (the part that takes the most time is letting the dough rise) and if you don't feel that adventurous, you don't even have to make the tomato sauce yourself, although I would encourage you to take those extra minutes to do so, as it is well worth it! Once you have those two keys parts, all you need is a variety of your favorite toppings and voilà! Then, all that is left to do is enjoy your creation with your favorite person in front of a good movie!