Little Joy Factory

What will you do with minced beef? I have made beef ball and beef lasagna before. Yesterday was Good Friday, I was in a mood to make a special dish with exotic flavors. Chili con carne sounds gorgeous to me.  While the origin of this dish remains controversial,  many food historians agree that chili con carne is an American dish with Mexican roots. Chili con carne means "chilli with meat". Though there is no one recipe for this dish, the basic ingredients are more or less the same: spicy chili with ground beef, red kidney beans, tomatoes, onions and garlic. 

When I first came across this zucchini tomato casserole recipe a few days ago , I realised that zucchini has not reached my plates for sometime. Maybe because it's a seasonal vegetable, not commonly sold in the local market,  I simply forgot the existence of zucchini.