I choose and made this Rachael Ray recipe knowing there was about a 99% chance I would not like it. I love zucchini, and I’ve had some strange things on pizzas in Europe before, so I thought, well it won’t kill me to try it. I think this pizza might have been good to me if I put tomato sauce instead of ricotta cheese on it. If you love ricotta cheese, I bet you would like it. I do not even like ricotta cheese all that much, I can tolerate it in lasagna, with a ton of meat sauce on it, but other then that, I’ll pass. Unfortunately I wouldn’t recommend this one. That doesn’t happen very often.

Recipe: Zucchini Pizza

Zucchini Pizza

Cookbook: Rachael Ray 365 Days: No Repeats

Total Time: 25 minutes

Notes: I didn’t change anything, wish I would’ve, but I didn’t.

Since it apparently is already winter in Oklahoma, its perfect weather for Rachael Ray stoup recipes. If you don’t know what a stoup is, it is a soup, but thicker then normal soup. This one was very good, a lot of flavors going on. It smelled so wonderful cooking. Not only do I like stoups and soups because they are warm, there is a lot less maintenance with cooking them. So you can almost throw everything in the pot and let it go. At least a little bit, and when you’ve got a 19 month old climbing up your leg, that’s what you need!

Recipe: Chicken, Corn, and Black Bean Stoup

Chicken, Corn, and Black Bean Stoup

Cookbook: 365 Days: No Repeats

Total Time: About 20 minutes to get it together, then I let it simmer for a while, maybe another 20 minutes or so

Notes: The only thing I did different here was not use fresh corn. I used frozen, basically because I am lazy and I didn’t want to cut it off the ears. I might could’ve had 1 more pepper in mine.