99 Days of Summer: DIY Week continues with the answers to the zucchini questions that were posed to me after my Tip on Tuesday.
1) Approximately 2 - 3 large zucchini per quart bag for the shredded, chopped, and noodled.
2) To make zucchini noodles I used a mandolin on a fairly thin setting.
First I removed both ends, then sliced length wise to form wide noodles
to use in lasagna. They can be used in place of pasta in any baked dish.
3) Using the zucchini as pasta is a great way to hide it. There are a lot
of recipes for everything from quiche to pancakes with zucchini hidden
in them. Google kid friendly zucchini recipes.
4) Zucchini freezes very
well. The only one I pre-froze were the halves. I cut them in half
length wise, scooped out the seeds using a melon baller, put in the
freezer on a cookie sheet. After they were frozen I transferred them in
meal size portions to baggies and placed back in the freezer. These I
will "stuff" like I would bell peppers. The chopped I will use in
things like fritatas or quiche. The shredded will go in baked goods. I
hope this inspires everyone to think outside the "spaghetti" box and
discover ways to have good veges in your diet all winter long.
Word for Today, Believing: "I know whom I have believed and am persuaded
that He is able to keep what I have committed to Him until that day."
This verse, 2 Timothy 1:12, is what I call my "life verse." It contains
the promise that even when I am not faithful or fail or stumble, my
Savior is faithful, and someday I will see Him face to face. I was
sharing with someone yesterday about a broken relationship
in my life that grieves my heart. The situation is always on my mind
and has caused me so much sorrow. As I have prayed for the relationship
to be restored, and there has been no change, I recently reached the
point where I felt I no longer knew what to pray for. The Lord brought
me peace in that God's Word tells me that when I don't know what to
pray, God's Holy Spirit will pray on my behalf. This brought me so much
comfort, but the sorrow I awaken to each day is still there. As I was
reading this morning, my "life verse" was a part of a devotion written
by someone grieving. I have never thought of the verse in that context.
For the first time I saw in it a promise about the broken relationship
with a person, not just my relationship with God. The person that I
have been praying to be restored to was dedicated to the Lord and a
commitment made. That promise to the Lord was fulfilled on my behalf
and so I now can have the confidence that God will complete His promise.
I don't know how, because in my human eyes it looks impossible, but I
have confidence in His promise. Is there something in your life that
looks impossible to you? Commit it to the Lord, and then trust Him to
do His part. He, alone, is faithful. "I press on, that I may lay hold
of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me."
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