Stuffed Foods
All of this week's recipes involve stuffing or filling of some type. Stuffing cherry tomatoes sounds like a lot of work, but it's not as time-consuming as you might think. If you don't want to take the time, however, the filling works well as a spread for crackers. It can also be spread on ham slices, rolled, chilled, and cut into 1 inch pieces. The chicken breasts are excellent with steamed rice and the zucchini provides a colorful side dish. We've noted that the chicken should be secured with uncolored toothpicks (using colored ones when they were the only thing available quickly taught us that the colors run in the cooking process - not very attractive). In trying to come up with a "stuffed" dessert, it occurred to us that figs are in season now and are excellent when filled with a mixture of cream cheese and chopped nuts. Of course, they are also wonderful fresh off the tree.
