A to Z Food Challenge – Z

Guess what day it is? It’s the end of the A to Z Food Challenge – Z! This has been such a fun challenge, thanks to Glenda who writes Mommies Reviews and her son Charlie who came up with this challenge for his homeschool project. This is my 5th blog challenge I have completed in a row! YAY ME!

So on today’s menu I have delicious Zucchini. I cook up Zucchini and yellow squash together with onions and peppers but my favorite is baking Zucchini bread with Lia. She enjoys baking and she is becoming a great bread maker!

Once again Lia was keeping her eye on the Zucchini in our garden. She would go to the garden in the morning and finally one morning, there was a perfect sized Zucchini to pick!

Check out this video on how hard she worked to get to the Zucchini and pull it off the vine! She was ready to eat it right from the vine!

This is Lia’s first batch of Zucchini bread she made! It’s made with brown sugar and pecans. All I can say is it was delicious! Check out Lia’s step by step blog to making her Zucchini bread. http://themarthareview.com/lias-zucchini-bread/

We found another Zucchini bread recipe with lemon so Lia had to try this one. We used our mini chopper for chopping the Zucchini for this batch and it saved so much time! After the batter was ready to pour into the pan, we ended up with a little extra so Lia made Zucchini butterfly bread! Doesn’t this bread look so yummy?

Because the lemon Zucchini bread recipe didn’t call for brown sugar, it is much lighter in color. This bread was more moist than the first batch that called for brown sugar, maybe because of the yogurt we substituted since we didn’t have buttermilk. This is the recipe Lia used for her lemon Zucchini bread. http://themarthareview.com/lias-lemon-zucchini-bread/ The recipe didn’t call for chopped nuts but we added pecans. Both these breads are delicious right out of the oven, covered with butter!

What if you have leftover zucchini? No problem, chop it up and freeze it! Lia and I put one cup of chopped zucchini in each bag and wrote the amount and date on the bag. This way we can take out what we need to make a batch or two of bread.

Lia says, “Oh this bread batter is so good!” I hope you enjoyed the last of our A to Z Food Challenge -Z! Some days were more of a challenge than others, but I did it! I completed the A to Z Food Challenge with help from Lia!! Thank you for stopping by and reading our blogs about different foods from A to Z. Now to see what excitement in the blogging world brings me next month!