My favorite kind of recipes are the ones that really don’t require any recipe at all. The ones where you just throw food into a pan that you need to use up and season to your liking. That’s where this recipe came from.

Props to my Mom for this recipe. She had sweet potatoes and zucchini on hand and decided to cook them up with lemon pepper and olive oil. Now this is a recipe I make pretty frequently at home. Sometimes I like to switch up the flavors by adding mushrooms or bell peppers, but usually I just stick to zucchini and sweet potatoes.

If you use this recipe as a starting point, you can customize it with sauteing any vegetables in the future. As a general guideline, if you’re cooking up hard, root vegetables like potatoes, parsnips, carrots, or winter squash, put them in the pan first since they will take longer to cook. If you put them in the pan at the same time as your softer vegetables (zucchini, tomatoes, greens, or mushrooms), all your other vegetables will be mush by the time your hard vegetables are done cooking. That’s why in this recipe I cook up the potatoes first until mostly done, then add the zucchini.

For my Lemon Pepper seasoning, I like to use Mrs Dash because there’s no added salt. That way I can control the type and quantity of sodium I am adding to my diet.

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