I have dreaded this day...the day I realize I can't find one of my useful, kitchen tools. I have two favorites: my Pampered Chef potato peeler from my sister and my "hand-me-down-from-aunt-janet" melon baller. I use them often maybe weekly, sometimes daily. I wanted to make zapallito relleno today. Zapallito is a small, round zuchinni kind of like a gourd, but edible. It is filled with ground beef that is sauteed with onion, garlic and peppers, maybe a hard boiled egg and stuffed with cheese all in a tomato sauce and served over (garlic) rice.
I usually use my melon baller to scoop out the insides. It is so quick and handy, a teaspoon just doesn't scoop well.
So anyway, I searched and searched for my melon baller and couldn't find it. Could it have accidentally gotten thrown out when someone (not me, of course) threw away the guava seeds? I looked in the toy box, sometimes a little someone likes to help me cook. I spent time rummaging here and there and while I searched, I made a cleaning project out of the whole mishap. But...I didn't find it!
I scooped out the seedy center with a teaspoon, filled my zapallitos and sadly accepted the fact that my melon baller...disappeared.
Now...I will hang onto my potato peeler like GOLD.
P.S. the filled zapallito's were great!
4 comments:
I KNOW what you mean about those utensils. I have a special knife that slices tomatoes perfectly. If anything happens to it, we may have to stop eating tomatoes. And, Aunt Janet may still be able to supply a melon baller...
Liz, that's so funny!!!! And incredibly true....
I have too many necessary kitchen gadgets that I'd be lost without! Kar, hope you find 'em....
Ohh, hope you find your mellon baller. Are those little squash the same ones you made when I was there and one was horribly bitter?
The rest of them were really good, though! Liz, that's funny! AJ just might have one in a box somewhere...
Did you look out in the sandbox?
If Aunt Janet doesn't have an extra melon-baller, I'm sure she at least has a cookbook for you.
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