A courgette by any other name ….
Before I start this post it comes with a warning. I got a new keyboard yesterday and I’m still getting used to it. It’s smaller than my old one and my fingers keep hitting the wrong keys. Bear with me .. my typing is likely to be terrible. I will try to correct everything but may miss the odd word or two! 😀 Ohh and it has emoticon buttons so expect them to start appearing a lot! 😂👍👍💜😀💜😀👍😂💜😀💜😂😂💜💜
I’ve never been a huge eater of vegetables. I do like and eat a lot of what I call “safe salad” – tomato, cucumber, celery, carrots and lettuce (although I don’t really see the point in lettuce, I just use it as a filler!). Cooked veg I would stick to carrots, corn and the occasional potato and kumara. My dislike of veg started at a young age at boarding school where it was served looking like something from the black lagoon .. grey, lifeless, cold and uninviting. Total yuk!
So my diabetes journey has meant a big change with veg now at the top of my diet. It has opened up a new world to me and I’m on an adventure through the world of veg! My latest trial is the humble courgette .. or zuchini if you are that way inclined.
I do occasionally cook them in a tomato based sauce along with green pepper (capsicum), celery and onion in a toned down ratatouille. One of my favourite dishes. But I have never cooked them any other way and was a little nervous to experiment but experiment I did. So out came the humble air-fryer (which is quickly becoming my new best friend!).
I sliced the courgette’s in half length wise, sprayed them with the tiniest amount of olive oil, sprinkled them with garlic powder (not garlic salt as that’s bad 
) and cooked them in the air fryer at 200 degrees for about 15 minutes. They came out browned, slightly crispy on top but soft to eat. I served them with baked fish (also cooked in the air fryer), broccolli and roasted kumara and carrots. Lets just say that this is one of my favourite dishes so far … in fact they it so yum that I didn’t even stop to take a photo to post here, that will have to wait until next time … and there will be a next time!