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Simple Zucchini Bread

2012 June 27
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by admin

Did you used to watch Seinfeld?  My husband and I did.  Not together.  We were far from being together when that show was on TV.  I sometimes try to get him to watch a rerun with me on TBS but it just never sticks.  If you are ever lucky enough to meet the Omnivore, do ask him for his Kramer impression – it is the best you’ll ever see.

Anyway, there was one Seinfeld episode where the concept of “bizarro personalities” was addressed.  A bizarro-Branny would be someone who, in an alternate universe, would look like me (or, more simply put, someone that, at a glance, looks just like I do).

The Omnivore and I use the bizarro terminology so often that when we retell stories we don’t even bother using a person’s true name, we just refer to them by their bizarro personality.

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So, at work last week, Bizarro-Whitney asked me if I ever made zucchini bread.  She wasn’t asking me to make her zucchini bread, but my husband doesn’t like quick breads and I was feeling up for the ‘chore’ so I went home to whip up a batch and save a few slices for my bizarro-friend.

The problem was, however, I only had bizarro-zucchini.  You don’t know what that is?  Yellow squash.  It looks just like zucchini, cooks up just like zucchini, but it is yellow.  So in an alternate universe, the zucchini would be the squash.

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So I went ahead and made the zucchini bread and subbed in yellow squash with only wonderful results.
Zucchini Bread (adapted from Simply Recipes)

Ingredients

2 eggs, beaten
1 cup sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla
3 cups grated fresh zucchini or yellow squash
2/3 cup melted unsalted butter
2 teaspoons baking soda
Pinch salt
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup whole wheat flour
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
1 teaspoon cinnamon
pinch cloves
pinch allspice

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 350°F.
  2. In a large bowl, mix together the sugar, eggs, and vanilla.
  3. Mix in the grated zucchini and then the melted butter.
  4. In a separate bowl, combine baking soda, flour, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, salt and allspice.
  5. Add the flour mixture, 1 cup at a time, stirring to incorporate.
  6. Divide the batter equally between 2 buttered 5 by 9 inch loaf pans.
  7. Bake for 1 hour, checking for doneness at 50 minutes, or until a wooden pick inserted in to the center comes out clean.
  8. Cool in pans for 10 minutes. Turn out onto wire racks to cool thoroughly.
  9. Makes 2 loaves.

from → bread, Cheap & Easy, Dessert, Zucchini

  • Angie-Frazzoo

    This? Looks fantastic. NOMS. And it’s too funny that you talk about Bizzaro-Zucchini. Last week, the spouse and I were talking about what makes zucchini so different from summer squash, and “yellow” was pretty much our only answer. And now I know what I’ll be making this weekend.

  • USAKiwi (Kylee)

    Love this post !
    The shape of the bread is cool – what kind of pan did you use? I’m not even close to being good at baking stuff….  can I just come to your house, and we sit on your porch and you tell me everything ?

    Great. Thanks ;)

    • Branny

       Oh I wish you could come sit on my porch and let me do the work!  The pan is an old pampered chef relic: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001BINZ8E .  I have two of the same shape (flower), send me an email and I’ll mail one off to you if you’re interested! 

  • http://www.books-n-cooks.com/ Books n’ Cooks

    The flower pan is adorable! Bizzaro-Booksn’Cooks love zucchini bread. :-)  

  • Kate

    I never loved Seinfeld the way everyone else and their mother did.