This Week's Recipe - Zucchini Bread

This is one of my most favorite recipes and most requested. Since home gardens growing zucchini should be flooding with the lovely green squashes (like my parents who accidentally planed more zucchini than they thought - though it was yellow squash). It's a great recipe for the beginning of fall. I like to shred up the zucchini and freeze it so I can make a fresh loaf in the middle of a snow storm. MMMM...... so yummy with Constant Comment Tea!

Zucchini Bread
Makes 2 Loaves

3 eggs
2.c sugar
1c. oil
2 tsp. vanilla
2c. grated zucchini squash
(or 1c. Zucchini and 1c. carrots)

3c. flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
1 tsp. cinnamon
¼ tsp baking powder
¼ tsp cloves
¼ tsp nutmeg
Add nuts or chocolate chips if you’d like

In a large bowl, beat eggs until light and fluffy, add sugar oil and vanilla. Mix well. In another bowl, mix flour, soda, salt, cinnamon, baking powder, cloves and nutmeg. Mix well with wire whisk. Alternately add flour mixture and zucchini. Stir in nuts or chocolate chips if using. Pour into 2 floured baking pans and bake at 325ْ for about 1 hour. (Pumpkin, Carrots, or Applesauce maybe be substituted for zucchini)

Hello World!

Well, here we go! Go, Dog, Go! I suppose I'll start where most things start, at the beginning. I am a stay at home mom of my daughter Lily who just turned 18 months. She is the light of my whole world. I have a wonderful husband who supports me in staying home and in my crafty endeavors. We also have Conrad, our America Eskimo/Beagle dog who was our first baby. We all run around our little ranch style house settled in the neighborhoods of Colorado Springs.

I really do love this town. It's big, but not to big. I come from a small town here in Colorado. Alamosa is where I grew up. We lived 10 miles out of town in a small community called Waverly. I do miss it sometimes.

So I suppose the next biggest thing in my life at the moment is my Etsy.com store. It's called Lily Beans after Lily of course. She's had that nick name since shortly after birth. I feature items mainly for kiddos. My big ticket item is the PARTY PACK! It is just like any birthday party pack you'd purchase but minus the crazy cartoons or cheesy bears. It's simple. It includes everything you'll need. Just add cake!

I wanted the main focus of Lily's first birthday to be Lily, to celebrate that amazing first year. So the first party pack was made. I did up all the invitations and made the decorations. I even tried my hand at cake decorating. Betty Crocker did me proud! It was delicious. I do have saying with some of my dishes I make - "it may not look pretty, but it tastes great!".

I am always tying to think up new ideas for my shop. I'd really love to make my dream a reality and be able to make an income on being creative and making things by hand. There really is something to be said about having that end product come into shape.

Well.... I think that will be all for now. Tune in tomorrow for another exciting chapter in.... just kidding!

Bye!