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Stir-Fry Zucchini with Spicy Peanut Sauce and #giveaway of The Black Dog Summer on the Vineyard Cookbook

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For years, I have owned The Black Dog Summer on the Vineyard Cookbook yet every time I see it – I have to pick it up and find a home for it. I cannot pass up a restaurant cookbook and especially something that reminds me of the East Coast.

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When you move to a town that doesn’t have a good year-round restaurant, you have to build one. And we did. Captain Robert Douglas

 

Yesterday, there was a long line at the store so I started looking through it. My neighbor had given me a large zucchini and the recipe for the Stir-Fried Zucchini with Spicy Peanut Sauce sounded perfect. I wanted to make a noodle dish as well so this cut my work in half.  When I posted a photograph of this dish, a few people asked for the recipe. The easiest way to share my adaptation of the recipe is to do a post and why not offer one of you a copy of this book?

 

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This dish was absolutely incredible – I almost ate the whole bowl shown in this picture but I don’t feel bad – it’s zucchini! I had tripled the sauce recipe with a few tweaks and used the extra sauce to make peanut noodles and chicken.

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Stir-Fry Zucchini with Spicy Peanut Sauce

Ingredients

  • Cooking Sauce
  • 3 T tahini, well blended
  • 3 ½ T hot water
  • 3 ½ T tamari
  • 3 T vegetable oil
  • 2 ½ tsp sugar
  • 2 ½ tsp rice wine vinegar
  • 3 T of peanut butter
  • 1 garlic clove, minced
  • Red pepper flakes to taste
  • Stir Fry Ingredients
  • 2 T vegetable oil
  • 2 tsp dark toasted sesame oil
  • ½ cup shelled raw peanuts
  • 2 T chili paste
  • 5 cloves of garlic, shopped
  • 6 small to medium zucchini, quartered lengthwise, then cut into 2-inch spears
  • 3 T dry Sherry
  • 5 scallions, sliced, for garnish

Instructions

To prepare cooking sauce, whisk together all the ingredients until well blended or place into a blender and blend.

Heat the vegetable oil in a heavy skillet until hot, add the dark sesame oil and peanuts and stir to toast but be careful not to burn. Add in the chili paste and garlic and stir.

Add the zucchini spears and stir fry for two or three minutes. Add the sherry and allow it to reduce about a minute

Add the cooking sauce and lower the heat to medium. Cook for another minute or two.

Serve with sliced scallions for garnish.

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A little about this cookbook. Named after the beloved companion of the owner, The Black Dog Tavern has been serving guests since 1971. Recipes from breakfast to dinner are included as well as many helpful tutorials such as how to fillet a fish or how to prep shrimp.

Char-lee’s Chilled Spicy Sesame Noodles, Jalapeno Shrimp Quesadillas, Flounder with Bananas, Almonds and Rum, and Lemon Basil Chicken Piccata with Penne are examples of the type of tempting recipes that are contained in this title. I have made the Lemon Basil Chicken Piccata and it was a hit.

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Giveaway:  To enter for a chance to win this cookbook, leave a comment telling me if you have ever visited Martha’s Vineyard. You may enter this giveaway daily. It is open to U.S. addresses only. A random winner will be chosen on September 6th. Good luck.

 

 

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Comments

  1. 1

    Its been a very long time since Ive been to Marthas Vineyard.. As a child we used to go to Provincetown or Montauk or the Vineyard. Those were the days. Would love to win this book. Thanks..>Amy

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  6. 6

    I have never had the good fortune to visit there, but I guarantee I would love to be able to cook like a Martha’s Vineyard wizard (and particularly one of such renown)! Thank you for the opportunity to own this coveted title! Bon Appetite by way of your most excellent site!

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  8. 8

    I have never visited Martha’s Vineyard, but I am deep into the Cynthia Riggs series of Martha’s Vineyward mysteries that are so atmospheric I feel as if I know the island well.

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  19. 19

    Have not visited, but was given a t-shirt with their logo years ago and always curious about the place

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  20. 20

    After teaching high school for 36 years I gave a retirement present to myself. Five days on Cape Cod including Martha’s Vineyard. Would love to go back again.

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  56. 56

    I won 600.00 dollars worth of tickets to The Hampton Classic Horse Show yesterday are the Hamptons anywhere near Martha’s place?

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