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Good Friends Good Food Zucchini

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We are focused on zucchini this week in my Good Friends Good Food group.  I had a hard time choosing a recipe because zucchini is one of my favorites and there are so many ways that you can use it!   I thought about muffins and zucchini bread - both favorites especially this time of the year!  But then I narrowed it down to two chicken dishes and I ended up making both of them this week!   For purposes of this group and this blog I chose to highlight the chicken zucchini casserole.    I found a recipe on Pinterest that really sparked my interest and then I tweaked it a bit to make it more to our liking.  And liking we did!   Honestly this was so good and we enjoyed the leftovers just as much as the first dinner.  I will definitely be putting this in our dinner rotation.  It is the perfect weeknight dinner.  I found it easy to make and only uses a few ingredients.  I cooked my chicken breasts quickly in the instant pot and then chopped them up .   Diced up the zucchini . Then  you just

Good Friends Good Food - Tomato Pie

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This week in my GFGF food group we are focusing on tomatoes!  There is nothing tastier in the summer to me than a fresh tomato pulled right from the vine.  While I do not have any plants of my own, I do try to buy Organic vine-ripened tomatoes.  The thought of tomato season coming to an end is sad.  But as with everything else in life where one door closes, another door opens and we will have pumpkins coming soon!  There is a place that we go camping in Alabama that has a wonderful tomato pie on their menu.  In fact, it is the only place that I have ever ordered tomato pie!  I know they have been recommended by Southern Living Magazine.  If you get a chance to visit there you should.   It’s in a quaint little town called Mentone.  It’s called the Wild Flower CafĂ©.  So that menu item was the inspiration for my tomato dish.  I do not have their recipe so I just adapted one of my own. I am sure that this would be much better with a made from scratch pie crust but today I used a premade on