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Classic Easy Zucchini Bread

[heart_this] · Aug 30, 2016 · Leave a Comment

My family’s favorite, easy zucchini bread recipe.

Wow! Where did August go? I meant to share this zucchini bread earlier, but life happened so I’m trying to squeeze it in here before September.

We’ve had been looking forward to a August since earlier this spring, when my family planned a trip to the Rocky Mountains in Colorado. Not only did we planning on doing lots of our favorite vacation activity, hiking, but we were also excited to be all together for the week. My sister and her husband and baby came from Oregon, my parents and siblings drove from Ohio and we flew from Philly. Sort of a central meeting spot 🙂 The mountains didn’t hurt anything either….

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Cream Cheese Frosted Zucchini Cake

[heart_this] · Aug 1, 2016 · 10 Comments

Soft zucchini cake frosted with a rich, tangy cream cheese frosting – the best way to eat zucchini this summer!

Tyler considers zucchini a weed and thinks I should never plant it. This time of the year it seems like you can barely get rid of the stuff without paying someone to take it. The fact that it’s worthless, combined with the idea that he doesn’t like it has convinced him there is no use in planting it and it just takes up valuable space in the garden. …

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Peanut Butter Swirled Chocolate Zucchini Bread

[heart_this] · Aug 1, 2014 · 19 Comments

The best way to use up that extra zucchini. A moist chocolate zucchini bread with a a peanut butter swirl.

So it’s the time of year when everyone’s gardens are overflowing with zucchini. It almost should be described as a weed, it’s so easy to grow. But yet, I harbor a bit of jealousy, because there is not even one little scraggly plant of zucchini in my garden, which is non-existent. Between working full time, blogging and a tiny yard, for the past two years I haven’t been gardening, unless you count the 3 small tomato plants in the landscaping around the shed trying to survive the downpour from the eaves from all the heavy rains we’ve had this summer. I won’t complain too much about my lack of zucchini, because in Lancaster County, I can pick up a zucchini on every corner big enough to make me 6 loaves of bread for a few pennies.

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