GARDEN ZUCCHINI... BREADS

Here’s what happens overnight when you don’t harvest the zucchini the day you see it is the prefect size!


I didn’t want to stuff this big zucchini so I made zucchini bread!


I started out thinking with nostalgia that I would hand grate the squash like I did for my Mom when I was a kid, also, I didn’t want to get out the food processor and then clean it up after…



So much for nostalgia!


I did, however run a knife through the squash “threads” after grating them in the food processor to give them a shorter more uniform appeal.


ZUCCHINI BREAD
Preheat the oven to 350 de3grees F. And grease two standard loaf pans.
3 ¼ cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon ground nutmeg (I will only nut meg I grate myself with a micro plane and not this much)
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
3 cups sugar
1 cup vegetable oil (I used walnut oil)
4 beaten eggs
1/3 cup water
2 cups grated zucchini
1 teaspoon lemon juice (Well singe the cobbler I still haven’t been to the store, I used orange juice again)
1 cup chopped pecans or walnuts

Mix dry ingredients in one bowl and wet ingredients in another. Mix wet into dry and fold in nuts. Divide into the two prepared loaf pans and bake for an hour or until a tester comes out clean.


Well... I did all of the above, took it out of the oven, let it sit for 10 minutes and tried to turn it out of the pans and it stuck… I am thinking back and may have used two cups of oil! It is not pretty...It tastes fantastic!

With the left over two cups of grated zucchini I have two loaves of chocolate zucchini in the oven now.

CHOCOLATE ZUCCHINI BREAD
Preheat the oven to 350 de3grees F. And grease two standard loaf pans.
3 cups all-purpose flour
¼ cup cocoa powder
(Not Dutch process, I had Hershey’s on hand and as you know I haven’t been to the store!)
1-teaspoon ground nutmeg
(I will only nutmeg I grate myself with a micro plane and not this much)
1 ½ teaspoons salt
2 teaspoons baking soda
1-teaspoon ground cinnamon
3 cups sugar
1-cup vegetable oil (I used only one cup this time but I used olive oil)
4 beaten eggs
1/3 cup buttermilk
2 cups grated zucchini
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup semi sweet chocolate morsels

Mix dry ingredients in one bowl but sift the cocoa powder and mix the wet ingredients in another bowl. Pour wet into dry, mix until incorporated and fold in nuts. Divide into the two prepared loaf pans and bake for an hour or until a tester comes out clean. We’ll see how these tow come out!