{"id":14965,"date":"2014-08-21T18:47:37","date_gmt":"2014-08-22T00:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/?p=14965"},"modified":"2014-08-21T18:48:01","modified_gmt":"2014-08-22T00:48:01","slug":"zoodles-for-zupper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/2014\/08\/zoodles-for-zupper\/","title":{"rendered":"Zoodles for Zupper and the Montana August Singularity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zoodles = zucchini noodles, i.e. zucchini shredded\/spiralized into &#8220;noodles&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>There are various implements available to &#8220;noodle&#8221; a zucchini.  I tried a $6.00 spiralizer and got what I paid for &#8230;junk that fell apart at the first zucchini.<\/p>\n<p>I did not want to buy a medium-largish thing&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;.then, I saw a post about a julienne peeler.<\/p>\n<p>THAT was that.  I found one on Amazon and ordered&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Aug14\/Zoodles7932.jpg\" target=\"Large\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Aug14\/Zoodles7932.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The peeler and the zoodles.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;scraps&#8221; I saved and chopped and blended with the sauce.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Aug14\/Zoodles7933.jpg\" target=\"Large\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Aug14\/Zoodles7933.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Zoodles:  actually, I used a summer squash and some sweet red pepper &#8211; saut\u00e9ed the lot in olive oil &#8230;briefly until all was tender.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Aug14\/Zoodles7936.jpg\" target=\"Large\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Aug14\/Zoodles7936.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A bit of chipotle-tomato-ground beef sauce and fresh grated parmesan on top&#8230;with a side of toasted bread.<\/p>\n<p>Zoodles for Zupper!<\/p>\n<p>Weather-wise&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Aug14\/Zoodles.jpg\" target=\"Large\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Aug14\/Zoodles.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My kind of weather.<\/p>\n<p>NOAA will not cotton to the term, but it is the Montana August Singularity.  A weather singularity is a weather phenomenon that regularly happens around a certain date.<\/p>\n<p>Search (Google, Bing or your favorite search engine) &#8220;Montana August Singularity&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Yep.<\/p>\n<p>It is true &#8211; more often than not the 20 years I&#8217;ve lived here.<\/p>\n<p>Pffht &#8211; NOAA!  ( I emailed them and commented and ZERO reply or acknowledgement )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zoodles = zucchini noodles, i.e. zucchini shredded\/spiralized into &#8220;noodles&#8221;. There are various implements available to &#8220;noodle&#8221; a zucchini. I tried a $6.00 spiralizer and got what I paid for &#8230;junk that fell apart at the first zucchini. I did not want to buy a medium-largish thing&#8230; &#8230;.then, I saw a post about a julienne peeler. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14965"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14969,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14965\/revisions\/14969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}