But Amy Kortuem the Zucchini Slayer is not one to give up easily. This was quick bread, for crying out loud. What could possibly be so hard? I put out the call for a good recipe for a nebulous "next time."
Well, fate intervened. Last Friday, I got a Facebook message from a friend at work that there was another monster zucchini at the give-away table, just waiting for me. Fairly calling my name. I had taken the day off work, but drove up there to fetch this big beauty:
I think it's even bigger than the last one.
In the oven, using Grandma Freda's pans for luck.
Success. SUCCESS, people.
(Amy Kortuem the Zucchini Slayer does a victory dance around her kitchen
with the butcher knife she used to massacre that zucchini in her hand...)
I decided to try Mary Bergemann's recipe (via my Mom) first. I have enough shredded zucchini in the freezer to make two more batches...next time I'm trying my friend Valerie's chocolate zucchini bread recipe. Stay tuned.
I can almost smell it! All the way to St. Paul!!
ReplyDeleteThe sweet smell of success goes far.
DeleteRecipe PULEEZE!
ReplyDeleteor you could make a salad..ahem
recipe more or less at PB/Chef Marthe
Zucchini Bread
Delete~ Mom via Mary Bergmann
3 eggs, beaten 3 cups flour
1 cup oil 1 Tbsp cinnamon
2 cups sugar 1 tsp salt
2 cups grated zucchini 1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp vanilla 1 tsp soda
• Beat eggs and oil. Add sugar and zucchini and vanilla. Beat well.
• Add flour, cinnamon, salt, baking powder and soda. Blend well.
• Pour into two 9x5 loaf pans
• Bake at 325 for 1 hour
• Cool 5 minutes and turn out of pans and cool on a wire rack.
If I knew you in real life and you lived close by, I'd give you a whole bunch of zucchini! :)
ReplyDeleteI just found you by way of SouleMama & am enjoying your blog very much. Thanks for letting me visit. :)
And if we lived close, I'd take those zucchini!
DeleteI got another monster from work the other day...I'm going to shred and freeze it for the snowy days of winter!
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