Zucchini Bread

These were really yummy! I gave them as gifts to my kids teachers and my custodians at work.


Zucchini Bread
*2 1/4 cups whole wheat all-purpose flour
*1 cup all-purpose flour
*1 1/2 teaspoons salt
*1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
*2 teaspoons baking soda
*1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
*1 cup sugar
*1 cup agave sweetener (kinda pricey, I'll prob use all *white sugar next time)
*1 cup vegetable oil
*4 eggs, beaten
*1/3 cup water
*2 cups grated zucchini
*1 teaspoon lemon juice
*1 cup chopped walnuts or pecans


Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. In a large bowl, combine flours, salt, nutmeg, baking soda, cinnamon, sugar, and agave. In a separate bowl, combine oil, eggs, water, zucchini and lemon juice. Mix wet ingredients into dry, add nuts and fold in. Bake in 2 standard loaf pans, sprayed with nonstick spray, for 1 hour, or until a tester comes out clean. Alternately, bake in 5 mini loaf pans for about 45 minutes. Mini bundts 17 minutes.

Healthy Zucchini & Spinach Sloppy Joe's

It's Zucchini time of year and we already have had about 10 from our plants so besides sautéing them, we had to figure out some new recipes. Matt wanted "Sloppy Joe's" so I had to figure out how to make that work with zucchini. 

Healthy Zucchini & Spinach Sloppy Joe's

2 cups shredded zucchini

1 Tb butter or EVOO

2 big handfuls of baby spinach chopped

1 can stewed tomatoes

dried onions

garlic powder

salt & pep

1 1/2 tomato sauce (I like Classico)

2 1b ground meat

soy & Montreal seasoning

Wheat Buns (we used the sandwich thins and they were... too thin, tasty though)

Parmesan for the buns

Cook the zucchini in the 1 Tb butter or EVOO for a couple minutes, then add the dried onion and spinach. Cook it for a bit to some water out. Add the stewed tomatoes, garlic, salt & pepper. Cook it down to get more water out. 

Cook the meat of your choice (we used beef) and season with some Montreal seasoning. Drain and add a couple dashes of soy sauce.  Toast buns with EVOO spray & Parmesan cheese.

Add the meat and sauce to the veggie mixture and mix. Spoon on to buns and enjoy!

Centerpiece Bundt Cakes

So i got this idea out a Martha Steward Living Magazine and thought it would be perfect for the Bridal Shower that I was throwing. You double to great ideas into one: dessert and flowers. We did 2 large Bundt cakes and a few mini ones. They turned out so delicious and beautiful. We didn't even frost them, I just sifted powdered sugar over the tops and added the fresh flowers!