Zucchini Bread

Mmmmm...Zucchini Bread!  I remember helping Grandma pick tomatoes, cucumbers, sweet corn, gourds, zucchini and many more vegetables when I was a kid.  With the zucchini's we picked she always made zucchini bread.  

My favorite kind of homemade bread is...I bet you can't guess...zucchini bread.

I start off by grating the zucchini so it is ready when I need it.

 Combine well beaten eggs, white sugar, vanilla and oil.  Blend it together well.

In a separate bowl combine flour, baking powder, cinnamon and baking soda.  Mix these ingredients together.

 

Mix the dry ingredients into the egg, sugar, vanilla and oil mixture.  Once that's combined, mix in the grated zucchini.  I add all the zucchini juice to it as well.

Split the batter between two different greased and floured loaf pans.  Bake it and it should turn out like this!

Here's the whole recipe:

Zucchini Bread
2 eggs, well beaten
2 cups white or brown sugar (Grandma always used white sugar so of course, that's what I use)
3 tsp vanilla
1 cup oil
Blend well.

In separate bowl mix
3 cups flour
1/4 tsp baking powder
3 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp baking soda

Combine the flour mixture into the egg and sugar mixture.  Then add the zucchini and mix well.  Put in 2 greased and floured loaf pans.  Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour.

The recipe I got from Grandma said to bake it one hour.  I always start at 30 minutes.  It usually ends up taking around 45 minutes.

Enjoy!  This is the best zucchini bread you will ever consume.

Monkey Bread

I remember this from when I was a kid.  I had a coupon for biscuits so I decided to pull out this recipe.  It came from one of mom's old cook books.

4 cans biscuits, cut into fourth's  (I purchased the Grands biscuits so I only needed 2 tubes and I cut each biscuit into sixths)
3/4 cup sugar
1 tsp. cinnamon
1 cup sugar
1 1/2 sticksmargarine
1 tsp. cinnamon

Cut biscuits and shake in a sack with the 3/4 cup sugar and 1 tsp. cinnamon.  Place the coated biscuits in a greased bunt pan (I use this) or angel food pan.  Melt margarine and combine with 1 cup sugar and 1 tsp. cinnamon.  (I use the left over cinnamon and sugar mix that was used to shake each piece of biscuit in plus the 1 cup sugar and 1 tsp. cinnamon, so when I make it, it turns out extra cinnamon and sugary).  Pour the melted mixture over the biscuits.  Bake at 350 degrees F for 40 minutes.  After baked, tip upside down on a cookie sheet or large plate and remove the pan.  Let cool a bit, then chow down!  Personally I think it tastes better after it has set for a day.

Banana Bread

I believe this recipe came out of one of the many cookbooks mom has.  She has used this recipe as long as I can remember.

1/2 cup margarine or butter
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp. vanilla
3 bananas
2 cups flour
1 tsp. soda
1/2 cup nuts, optional
Cream shortening and sugar until light.  Add eggs and vanilla; beat until smooth.  Add mashed bananas, flour, soda and nuts.  Bake in 2 greased and floured loaf pans at 350 degrees F for 60 minutes.  (I bake it for 30 to 40 minutes).  Can be doubled or add chocolate chips.