Advanced Diet (Recipe from Lin Hardick’s Good Food Blog)

Ingredients:

• 2 zucchini, approximately 8 – 10 inches long
• 2/3 – 3/4 cups grape tomatoes, lightly diced
• 1/3 to 1/2 cups Greek Feta cheese
• 1/4 cup pitted black olives, lightly diced
• 1/4 cup pepita (pumpkin)  seeds or raw pine nuts (optional)
• 1/4 cup chopped fresh Italian flat leaf parsley
• A drizzle of olive oil (optional)

Instructions:

1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
2. Cut the zucchini in half, lengthwise,
3. and scrape out the seeds with a
4. teaspoon, forming a “ditch” for the other ingredients.
5. Cut a slim length of the skin on the bottom of the zucchini, so it will sit steadily on the plate.
6. Combine all the other ingredients and distribute them evenly into the four zucchini halves.
7. Bake until zucchini is just cooked, approximately 15 to 20 minutes.
8. You may want to drizzle a tiny bit of olive oil over the finished product.