Recipe Review: Zucchini Oven Chips from Pinterest

I'm sure many of you are Pinterest lovers like me, especially when it comes to recipes.  I also love to cook and to try new things, so I thought I might include my thoughts and experiences on some of the things I have made.  This was one of the more "popular" recipes popping up on my Pinterest page a couple of weeks ago, so I am sure you may have seen it.  I'm guessing that a lot of people are like me and they pin, pin, pin but don't really do that many of them.  I am trying to chip away at my pin stash and make a few things here and there.

I'm not gonna lie.  I just pinned about 16 things when I went to fetch the link for this recipe.

THIS is the recipe for the zucchini oven chips that I made.  Since the zucchini is coming in by the truckload, and my kids like it, I'm trying some different things.  My grandmother's zucchini bread recipe is making my house smell quite yummy at the moment, as a matter of fact. 

Thoughts on the recipe:  Very easy.  I liked the fact that you dipped the slices in milk instead of egg.  I think the egg gets so messy and clumpy, but the milk is just fine.  I'm kinda bummed that bread crumbs are full of a bunch of nasty crap ingredients. I mean, they're bread crumbs, for pete's sake!  Why taint them with so much garbage?  I looked in the organic section and found nothing, so I just stuck with the nasty (yet tasty) kind.  I know.  You are saying "YOU are don't make your OWN bread crumbs???  What on Earth is wrong with you??"  I won't keep you disappointed for long.  I'm going to try it next time, thank you very much.  

One thing the recipe recommended was using an oven-safe baking rack.  I did not have this, and I noticed some of the people who commented on the recipe did not have it either, so I took their advice.  For my first batch, I coated my broiler pan (top part only) with olive oil and tried baking them on there.  They did not get super-crispy and they still stuck on the pan, but they were really good.  The next night, I tried crumpling up a piece of aluminum foil and then spreading it back out on my cookie sheet.  This was not horrible, and it actually might have worked quite well, had I remembered to spray it with olive oil.  Still not super-crispy, but Sporticus was sending them into his mouth as fast as cookies go, and Digitt....well, he's another story.

Which brings me to my little spiel on getting kids to eat their veggies.  Sport has always eaten me out of house and home.  I am already considering boarding school since I think it may be cheaper than feeding him as a teenager (just kidding).  Sport likes everything in it's original form.  No casseroles for him.  He's my child who is extremely literal about everything, and his eating is no exception.  If we are having sweet potatoes, it has to look like a sweet potato.  Green beans have to look like green beans.  Green bean casserole?  No way.  He eats basically every cooked veggie I place before him.  Sweet potatoes, asparagus, zucchini, and broccoli are his most favorite.  He's not too keen on raw stuff, though after a few years of working on it, we have progressed to raw carrots.  Digitt is another story.  He has been a hater of all green veggies since his baby food days.  He was also a hater of all baby food, but that's neither here nor there.  Nothing green was passing this kid's uvula.  Period.  When he moved to table food at about 9-10 months, he would vaguely touch broccoli, but that was IT.  You read in all the parenting magazines, etc. that you should expose a child to a food 10 times before expecting them to warm up to it.  That's crap.  It's at least TWO years, trust me.  I'm a persistent little gal, and I was hellbent to have veggie eaters at my house.  TriDad and I love veggies, and they were getting served no matter what.  It has been a long road, but we started with one green bean (gagged on and spat out), then he would let me feed them to him one by one, and now, two years later, he's eating about 10 on his own with no prompting.  Peas (LeSeuer only 'cause he's kinda high-class with the peas) get shoveled in without discussion, and his most recent development is zucchini.  He still only eats it one way, though, which is cut into long fingers and sauteed.  He wasn't too keen on the chips, but we'll get there. They were quite tasty and we'll be making them again.  Asparagus has a loooonnnng way to go.  

Try this recipe for sure.  Zucchini is everywhere right now and you should have no trouble finding some fresh and local.  Try a farmer's market or even a neighbor.  I may even be giving some away - it's another giveaway, folks!  LOL  I may be making enough zucchini bread to feed my kids breakfast all winter long.