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Zucchini All Day Long

This year's garden features a bumper crop of zucchini. We have SO MUCH ZUCCHINI. Talmage planted what he thought were yellow squash seeds but which turned out to be zucchini seeds. In any case, he planted a lot and the harvest has been plentiful.



So, we're trying lots of zucchini recipes. We have a streak going of two week of zucchini consumption so far.  Here are some I've tried from a few cooking websites:

Creamy Cherry Tomato and Summer Squash Pasta

This recipe from CookieandKate.com turned out well. It was pretty easy to put together and I had all the ingredients and it tasted good. It used both summer squash and zucchini. I will make it again. I didn't take a picture of my version but here is the one from the website:


Mom's Zucchini Bread

This recipe is from AllRecipes.com, one of my go-to websites for recipes. It's the most popular zucchini bread recipe on the site with 10,793 ratings and an overall rating of 5 stars. I followed the suggestions of the most helpful review. The review suggested replacing half the oil with applesauce and doing less sugar (2 cups instead of 2 1/4--I think you could go even lower--with half of it being brown sugar). It also said put in more shredded zucchini--3-4 cups instead of 2. I also added a cup of chocolate chips for 2 loaves of bread so my youngest daughter would be more willing to eat it. And she was. For my second batch I decreased it to 1/2 cup but I'll probably do 3/4 cup next time. This picture features the lower amount of chocolate chips. Keep the bread frozen unless you eat it pretty quickly.


Chocolate Zucchini Sheet Cake

This recipe came from a woman I minister to who got it from the website Eat Cake for Dinner. It's very similar to a buttermilk brownies recipes that I've eaten most of my life. I actually like this recipe better. It's quite delicious. Another thing that helped was I used half sour cream and milk to substitute for the buttermilk. Did I mention it's delicious? My family loved it. I've made it twice in the last two weeks but neglected to take a picture, so here's one from the website:


Baked Cheesy Zucchini Bites

This recipe came from Mel's Kitchen Cafe.com. She has a LOT of zucchini recipes. This recipe was not bad but I did make it a little too salty so I will not add any extra salt next time. They tasted pretty good but I'm not sure how much I will be making it. Camille said they were like mini frittatas. Here's my picture:


Here's her picture--obviously much prettier:


And last of all, I made zucchini cake. The recipe came from Simply Recipes:

Grandma's Zucchini Cake

It turned out okay, not great, although my son and husband were definitely fans. It was like a spice cake or carrot cake. The cream cheese frosting covered a multitude of problems. I think I overmixed it so it fell in the middle. Next time I will make it more like my favorite carrot cake recipe since it's pretty much the same. I don't have a picture of mine but here's the beautiful picture from the website:




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