Pinterest Success

 I thought I'd share my success story today with pinterest.  Everytime I search for a recipe it has to look good in the pictures for me to try it, that's usually why I pin it into my "recipes to try board". But sometimes when I'm finished trying a recipe it doesn't look like the beautiful picture I pinned.

Like my attempt at the BEST BIG, FAT, CHEWY Chocolate Chip Cookie. I was really craving a nice chewy, gooey cookie. 

Original picture looks good, but who knows if it's really the cookie picture from this recipe? 

My attempt at the BEST BIG, FAT CHEWY Chocolate Chip Cookie!

My picture-nothing like the original. The complete opposite of BIG, FAT, and CHEWY.  The worst part was I couldn't even eat them warm because they were cooked to the pan!  I don't know what went wrong? But I really can make cookies, just not big, fat, chewy gooey chocolate chipy ones. (if you have a good big fat chewy chocolate chip recipe that works for you please share with me, I crave them often)

But today was my success. These little zucchini bites were a delight.  Give them a try.  I used the mini muffins tins like the recipe said, but you could easily use regular sized muffin tins because I ate 7 of the mini bites at once. Mmm good.

Original recipe found here at The Curious Country Cook.

I modified the recipe a little bit to my liking.

Zucchini Bites 

My picture

(they kinda look like the original picture too)

yields: 12-15 mini muffins

1 cups zucchini, grated
2 eggs (original called for 1)
1/4 yellow onion, diced
1/4 cup cheese (cheddar or Parmesan work the best, I used cheddar)
1/4 cup bread crumbs 
1/4 cup cooked diced ham (original didn't add ham, I had leftover so I threw it in)
1 tsp garlic salt
Pepper

1. Preheat oven to 400F. Spray a mini-muffin tin with non-stick spray, set aside.
2. Grate the zucchini and then place in a dish towel to squeeze out the excess water- like when using frozen spinach; if you skip this part, the middle of the zucchini tots will be really soggy while the outside gets crispy and no one wants that.
3. In a bowl combine, the eggs, onion, cheese, bread crumbs, zucchini, ham, garlic salt and pepper.
4. Using a spoon or a cookie scoop, fill the muffin cups to the top. Bake for 15-18 minutes, or until the top is browned and set.


Do you have any pinterest success recipes that I need to try? Please share! And don't forget your chocolate chip recipe too! Thanks. 

Menu of the Week

So for work I started a Menu of the Week. If anyone out there reads this or has any good healthy recipes send them my way and I'll post them. Check out my Menu of the Week!