Taking out the garbage last night, as I piled up the bottles by the door, I realized I’ve been ’indulging’  kind of a lot this week, especially since I emptied one of those bottles all by myself (over a couple of days – lol). When I say a lot, there was only 3 bottles, but that’s a little overindulgent for 1 week. Good thing I offset that with some veggies!

We subscibe to a fruit & veggie delivery service, and our latest delivery contained zucchini for the first time. I had no clue what to do with it as Dave hates it, so we never eat it. Of course I turned to Pinterest and was inspired to make Zucchini boats, however this time I made up my own recipe. The end result, they were awesome! Dave actually loved it and wants me to make them again this week, but more, it seems one big boat (along with the rest of our dinner) wasn’t enough. I love it when I hit a home run in the kitchen – lol. I only wish I could get our toddler to eat food like this.

The Dish: Zucchini Boats. Such a simple concept. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees, saute half an onion, a small yellow pepper and 1 clove of garlic. In the meantime hollow out one medium sized zucchini, chop up half of the pulp, add a chopped roma tomato (spoon out the guts), add the sauteed veggies with a dollop of sour cream to bind it all together. Load up the boats, add salt and pepper, sprinkle with a small amount of bread crumbs and cheese of your choice and simply bake for 20 minutes. You could really make this your own by using different veggies or adding other spices. For us, I really just wanted to get the full flavour of the veggies, so I chose not to include any spice.

The Drink: Lindemans Bin 85 Pinot Grigio. If anyone wants to educate themselves on the history of the Pinot Grigio, or Pinot Gris go to Wikipedia, it’s actually quite interesting. This particular bottle is a well made, enjoyable wine at an affordable price.  In this wine I could easily detect the flavours of crisp apples and grapefruit, however the pear and jasmine were a little lost on me. I did however enjoy the wine and it paired decently with pork chops and the zucchini.