Over the summer, Annalyn got to spend the night with my parents once a week. My mom is a teacher, so she has a couple months off to do things like baking, organizing and hanging out with her favorite (okay, only) granddaughter.
That worked out well for Annalyn, who not only loves spending time with her grandparents but also loves the breads that my mom bakes all summer. She likes banana bread, but she really loves “keenie bread.” You might know it as “zucchini bread.”
Mark and I love it, too. And since I don’t spend a whole lot of time baking, my mom is usually kind enough to send a loaf home with Annalyn. She says it’s for Mark, but I’m pretty sure she knows we both enjoy the home-baked goods!
Funny enough, when Annalyn and I took our little road trip to Iowa last weekend, our friend Cory did the same thing. And while I think it’s normal for a mom to send bread home with her kids, it cracked me up that our friend did it, too!
Not that I argued. Nope, I took that loaf of zucchini bread home – and we all three enjoyed it!
Now, you know the trouble I had making banana bread. But I’m hoping to have better luck with zucchini bread. I’m pretty sure I have my mom’s recipe, but my neatly organized recipe binder has kind of, sort of turned into a big mess of paper. So I asked our friend for his recipe.
Apparently, he got the recipe from a lady at church. So it’s possible this recipe is almost as good as my mom’s. Try it out. Let me know what you think!
The Church Lady’s Zucchini Bread
3 eggs
1 ½ cup sugar
1 cup vegetable oil
2 tsp vanilla
2 cup shredded zucchini
3 cup flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
1 ½ tsp cinnamon
½ tsp nutmeg
Bake at 350 for approximately 50 to 55 minutes.
Where do you get your best recipes? Do you enjoy any foods during the summer that you don’t get (or get to make) the rest of the year? (And whose recipe would you rather use: your mom’s or a church lady’s???)
This post will be linked to Mouthwatering Monday, Tasty Tuesday, Tuesdays at the Table, Tempt My Tummy Tuesday, What’s Cooking Wednesday, Works for Me Wednesday, Friday Food, Foodie Friday and Food on Fridays.
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Uh, yum! I’ve made chocolate zucchini bread before, but nothing like this. It sounds wonderful.
Wait a minute – chocolate???
Yum….zucchini bread. I use my mom’s recipe. Come to think of it, we haven’t had much of it this summer…might have to go home and bake some :-)
Thanks for stopping by my blog last week (I was on vacation…just getting back). I’m glad you liked the pumpkin muffin recipe.
And I simply love the idea of your blog, “giving up on perfect.” I’ll definitely be returning.
Thanks, Barb! And yes, go bake some bread! :)
Well aren’t you just the timely one? How did you know I have a big fat zucchini sitting in my refrigerator waiting to be made into bread? You are just amazing. :)
Yep, that’s me: a mind reader!
I have been looking everywhere for a zucchini bread recipe that somebody swears by. o_O
Oh, yay! Perfect!!
Thanks for stopping by my blog! I’ll have to put this zucchini bread recipe in my recipe box. I made one last year because we had a monsterous amount of zucchini from our garden but this year it was a flop… We had 2 that were edible.
Oh, no. I understand about flopping bread. That’s what happened last time I tried banana bread.So sad!
soooo, I was online literally looking for a good zucchini bread recipe and you had JUST posted this!
I immediately made it, and it tastes just like the one my own ma used to make! yum!
Good timing! Let me know how it turned out!
Oh, I will have to try this! I love zucchini bread, although our garden didn’t produce as much as it did last year.
… the zucchini, not the bread…
I have my mother’s banana bread recipe–it has chocolate chips, and any banana bread without tastes incomplete to me!
One of my friends on Facebook has said several times that she’s making banana bread w/chocolate chips – makes me hungry every time!
I think this is really similar to the one I just used *yesterday* to make zucchini bread! My son loves it, and I had one of those baseball-bat-sized zucchinis I had to deal with. So I grated it and used some to make the zucchini bread and then mixed some with grated potato to make healthier hash browns.
We added chocolate chips to our zucchini bread with great success, by the way. ;)
Thanks for linking this to Food on Fridays.
Oh, and you asked where I get my recipes? Almost always online or from a friend who cooks great.
Can’t go wrong with chocolate chips, right?
This is exactly the recipe that I got from my mom’s Amish cook-book! Exactly! Those Amish know how to make wonderful and healthy things!