Small Slice

We're leaving tomorrow for our trip to Yosemite, and I've been trying to use up all our perishables.  Last night, I grabbed a red bell pepper, a green one, a large white onion, a couple of cloves of garlic and some olive oil and sauteed the whole mess.  Then I dumped in a can of plum tomatoes and sauteed some more.  Digging around in my fridge, I pulled out three small zucchini.  Sliced 'em thick and tossed them in.

The smell at this point was heavenly.  But I wanted...something else.  So I put the mixture in a casserole dish, topped it with about 1/4 cup of heavy cream, put on some panko bread crumbs and dotted the whole thing with butter and baked it until it had a nice crust on the top.

It was perfect.  So perfect that I dreamed about it, and had leftovers for breakfast.  Sometimes, the best food comes from spontaneous throw-stuff-in-pans cooking, doesn't it? 

I'll be back on Tuesday with a new menu and photos.  Have a wonderful weekend!