Chips! The healthy way (Shhh don't tell anyone)

Got a weekend away at the cottage which was during a heat spell. Lucky us! It made for great weather and great times with family and friends. Being by the lake during the heat wave is the only place I want to be. Basking in the sun, enjoying good food, drinks and great conversation, the time away flew by. Back to reality came too soon and I needed to get back in the garden. Weeds were growing like weeds but the zucchini didn't seem to notice. I've got an entire bushel full of zucchini.

Chips...all for me!

Sorry folks another zucchini post. I don't want to see an ounce of it go to waste so I'm making lasagnas, baked gratins and even loaves to keep using them. Pinterest has tons of pins with chips created from assorted vegetables, zucchini and kale. I've tried the kale chips and wasn't happy with the turn out finding them oily. Zucchini chips seemed only natural and if the chips turn out as good as they look as the pictures; I'm sold! 

Mandoline!

I used the recipe from the Naked Kitchen, a fellow blogger that focuses on food simplified. Enjoying the simple pleasures of food is what I'm all about. The recipe called for slicing the zucchini thinly thankfully I had my mandoline to help with this making the chips crispier.

The breading process.

 This recipe was easy to do, its just time consuming having bread the chips. I would definitely do it again because the first batch came out and was gone within an hour. Yep! Guilty as charged. I ate every single one of them. I loaded the next batch up in the oven and became preoccupied which burnt! (insert sad face here) I would highly recommend this recipe to anyone looking for a healthy snack.

Find the local farmers market, support farmers and eat well! 

Mmmmmussels

Creamy, curried and yummy.

Mussels is the quintessential entertaining meal. They are easy, delicious and fun to eat. For a quick dinner Saturday I bought some mussels and fresh bread at Superstore and voila dinner is made.  
Well…its not quite that easy. The broth is the most difficult part. There are several different broths I like to make to cook mymussels in but I decided on making a brand new curry coconut flavoured broth. It again took a couple of ingredients because unless I'm in the mood to spend all day in the kitchen I like to make something quick, easy, tasty and somewhat healthy. In all honesty the entire process took me about half of an hour and we were filling our bellies with seafood before I knew it.

So in the middle of February why not look ahead to the long, hot summer nights when seafood seems to be the food of the season. Get some friends, a good bottle of wine (or beer) and laugh, eat, drink and dig into some mussels.

Just a couple of tasty ingredients.

Check out Curried Coconut Mussel recipe, I created here.