OH-MY-GOODNESS-GOOD Zucchini Bread Recipe

Seriously.
This is THE YUMMIEST zucchini bread recipe.
Seriously.
You MUST make this.
I'm not joking.


While I was in Iowa, visiting the hot momma on the left, her son Gabriel (the handsome guy in orange and his equally handsome brother Sebastian in green) made this recipe and I am forever in debt to his mad baking skills. And so, without further ado,
Gabriel's now famous Zucchini Bread Recipe:
You’ll need:
-3 eggs
-1 cup of oil (veggie oil or butter can be used)
-2 cups of sugar
-2 cups of grated zucchini
-1 tsp vanilla
-3 cups of flour
-1 Tbsp cinnamon
-1 tsp salt
-1 tsp baking soda
-1 tsp baking powder

*This recipe yields two loaves of zucchini bread (baked in 9x5x3” pans)*

1. Beat eggs
2. Add oil, zucchini, sugar, and vanilla and blend thoroughly
3. Add flour, cinnamon, salt, baking powder, baking soda, and blend well.
4. Pour into 2 greased and floured loaf pans.
5. Bake at 350 for 50 minutes ~ check for doneness as every oven is different
6. Cool for 5-10 minutes before plopping it out of the pan
7. Enjoy because we sure did!
   

Little O and I made this this morning and the house smells divine. I don't use the word divine very often, especially with italics. This must mean that I'm telling the truth.

Banana Bread

The Easiest Banana Bread Ever
..that is unless you know of a recipe that I don't know of that's easier..

5-6 old bananas
2 cups of sugar
1 cup of butter, softened
3 1/2 cups of flour
2 tsps of baking soda
1 tsp of salt
4 eggs

1. Start by creaming the sugar and butter in a big bowl... this is the secret key to success (that isn't really a secret anymore)
2. In a seperate bowl, squish the bananas
   
3. Now add the rest of the ingredients to the big bowl ~ including the banana goo
   
4. Keep stirring, even though your arm hurts, until it's a goobery brown thick liquid
5. Plop mixture into a greased pan, I use 2 glass 8 1/2" pans
   
6. Cook at 300 degrees for about an hour and 15 minutes. I would check when it's getting close, though.
   

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The bananas were so old that when I picked them up, the peels fell off. Gross.

Little O is more than happy to be at home alone with mom in the mornings... he gets to help with everything without all of the competition.

Stirring away.

Looking to see if it's done yet even though the oven light is burnt out.

Because the bread takes so dang long to bake, I thought that I would just swing by and pick up Mr. P from morning kindergarten. I told myself about 50 times to turn off the oven before we left (there was only about five minutes left of cooking time so I figured that I could switch off the oven and just leave the bread in there to cook in the cooling oven). Did I? Nope. That would have been the "right" thing to do. So the bread was well done, but slab enough butter onto it and it remains yummy-licious. Mr.P won't stop asking me for
just one more.

?tres?

Okay, this is the last time that I'll post today... I'm going a little overboard... Come to think of it going overboard isn't unusual for me. Sooooo anyyyyywayyyy...

I was spending far too much time reading other peoples blogs (why would I interact with real live humans when I could just read about them?) and just couldn't help myself when I read that Nancy was having a little contest and all that I had to do was submit my favorite recipe for soup.

"SOUP!?! Why that's all that I cook!" I proclaimed aloud
"Soup again?" whined one of the kids, to remain unnamed
"Well, it's either that or McDonalds for dinner." I heaved with a sigh
"Guess what guys?" shouted unnamed child, "McDonalds for dinner!"
(children squealing in approval goes on for about thirty seconds)
"Sorry guys. No McDonalds tonight. It's just a computer thang."
(unhappy moans go on for another 30 seconds)

So, here's my fav and trust me, I've tried out just about every soup recipe known to man. I heart soup. Don't shy away from the barley - it sounds bizarre but it is oh so delicioso. Even my kids like this one!