I think it’s about time I hire someone who will make up recipe names for my blog. I suck ass at it. I’ll pay them nothing, but I’ll feed them. Roll ups just remind you of fruit roll ups when you were a kid doesn’t it? Then gross you out since these have sausage in them? Same. Why did I ever like fruit roll ups? They never had a chocolate roll up. What was I thinking? Sometimes I hate my child self.
These are bomb though. Grilled zucchini + pesto + basil = why the hell wouldn’t it taste good? Duh. These would be perfect for a little appetizer. If I hosted parties, I’d totally make these for it. Instead I just eat all of them by myself. Life.Is.Good.
These kinda look like sushi rolls. I wish I liked sushi.
I went to the store yesterday and bought men’s clinical strength deodorant. Men’s. And I was opening and smelling every single kind. What smell was I looking for exactly? I’m trying to get dates, dates who are men. Most likely they aren’t going to be intrigued by the hue of man odor I leave behind while hugging them. Dating sucks.
Anywho, going back to life being good, I’ve been trying to be more positive lately. If you’ve read my blog much, you know I complain about petty sh*t constantly. Like the size of my ass. It’s annoying. Sometimes slightly humorous, but mostly annoying. I apologize. So I’ve been on the up and up train lately (whatever the sh*t that means) by writing a little more. I sometimes write in my gratitude journal (yes, that’s a real thing) and then I just sometimes write my feelings out for the world to see when I write for Again Faster. And that’s what I did last week. You can check out my latest article with them here.
So sweets have entered back in my life a bit. I know, I know. I don’t need to hear it. But I’m going to have to say goodbye to them once again. I’m trying to get a date here and if I eat even a teaspoon of honey, my body puffs up. No joke. I get a zit and I have a puffy stomach. What the sh*t is that. Dislike button right there. And the amount of things I’ll be cooking for my cookbook is going to be out of control. So I NEED this date so I have one more person to feed all this food to. A good looking one. Who CrossFits. And is funny. Eff you sweets. I don’t need you.
My brain is so weird.
Zucchini Pesto Roll Ups
- Prep Time: 20 mins
- Cook Time: 10 mins
- Total Time: 30 minutes
- Yield: 2-3 1x
Ingredients
- 2 zucchinis, ends removed, sliced 1/4 inch thick lengthwise
- 4 italian sausages (I used Boulder Sausage brand)
- 1/2 cup walnuts
- 1 cup fresh basil
- 1/3 cup olive oil
- juice of 1 lemon
- 1 garlic clove
- salt and pepper to taste
- pinch of garlic powder
- 3 extra tablespoons olive oil to cook your zucchini with
Instructions
- Heat up your grill.
- Slice your zucchini with a knife or using a mandoline.
- Place your zucchini in a bowl with 3 tablespoons of olive oil, salt and pepper, and a pinch of garlic powder then use your hands to mix it and coat the zucchini.
- Place your italian sausages on the grill along with your zucchini.
- While the zucchini and sausages are cooking, make your pesto.
- Add your walnuts, garlic clove, and basil to the food processor and turn on. Then begin to add your olive oil while the food processor is still running.
- Then add your lemon juice and salt and pepper. Taste to see if you need more basil or lemon or salt and pepper. I think more lemon juice goes a long way.
- After your zucchini have cooked for about 4-5 minutes and have begun to show grill marks, flip them. Be sure to keep an eye on them because they will burn rather quickly.
- Once your zucchini are cooked through and sausage are completely cooked through, remove them to let cool.
- When your zucchini are cool to the touch, use a spoon to spread the pesto down the center of the zucchini strip and cut off an inch or so piece of sausage.
- Place the sausage in the middle of the zucchini so the cut sides are facing towards the outer ridges of the zucchini. You’ll figure it out.
- Wrap the zucchini around the sausage and use a toothpick to hold it in place.
- Serve to others or eat by yourself while watching the food network.
Notes
Makes 11-12 rolls
Being single already stinks enough some times, right? Alfalfa make Grokette smell good. Make Grok want. Best thing for BO is chlorophyll. Seriously the best discovery of the year next for me next to eating paleo. Have been able to switch back to the natural non-chemical no almuninum no parabens stuff since taking two of those two times a day. Give it a few days to kick in and then enjoy the awesomeness of scent-free sweat.
Juli, you inspired me to start the 21DSD – on day 2 and I planned out my meals for the week from your suggestions. Just made this tonite and amazed at how good it was! You’ve inspired me to try so many different things – THANK YOU!! Just wish i had made a triple batch – this would be a great breakfast. Thanks!!
These were SO DELICIOUS. I ate them with chicken apple sausage and I want them in my mouth for all eternal throughout the universe in perpetuity. Thank you for blessing the world with your food and web presence!
Could you use turkey sausage? This sounds sooo yummy, but I don’t like Italian sausage 🙁
of course!! whatever kind of sausage you would like!
Here is a cute paleo-kids story concerned with fruit roll ups! My 4 year old daughter was on her first t-ball team this last summer, and we got placed into a rather interesting group families. Anyways, each family would take turns bringing snack for the team each practice, and one day a parent brought fruit roll ups. My children have NEVER had them. These particular ones were colorful and had little pictures stamped all over them. So my daughter began to play with it! She had NO idea what it was…. one of the snotty moms told her she shouldn’t play with her food, and my daughter looked at me quite confused, held the fruit roll up between the tips of her fingers (much like a dirty, stinky sock) and said “Mom, is this FOOD?” ha ha ha the look on the other mom’s face was absolutely priceless. Why do people think we are so weird for feeding our children fruits and vegetables instead of high fructose corn syrup??? Why are WE the WEIRD ones? So proud of my big girl! (And she didn’t eat it, she gave it to another kid)
The besto pesto bites for sure
I looove your recipes, I’m slowly going through them and cooking the ones I like like a creeper. It would make life so much easier if you had a “pin it” button to post recipes to pinterest though…anyway thanks for all the yummy food!
Oh Good Grief this is good!! I was rolling and popping these while I was making. Ate half the dish before I sat down to dinner. WOW! Best part was, I had been dreaming up this dish, wondering if it would work and just thought to check if you’d ever done it and there it was! YUMMM! (I wanted to use up some hamburger meat so mixed that with some hemp pesto I’d made and added some goat gouda and manchego to make the filler yummy (I miss sausage). Delicious!!
Hey! I realise this post is a bit old, but have you ever tried clinical strength women’s antiperspirant? Those are the ones I use…a bit pricey but I try to get them on sale at wallmart once in a while.
There are 3 or 4 brands who sell them here in Canada; it’s pretty mainstream.
Otherwise, my sister also uses men’s antiperspirant, she picks the pine scent because she’s outdoorsy.
these are so tasty! messy but you won’t mind at all because they are great