Year 2 - Day 218 - August 7

When we got 3 zucchini with our crop share this week, I decided that I'd try to make zucchini bread. I googled, facebooked, and tweeted and decided to go with this recipe: http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/moms-zucchini-bread/detail.aspx

After I grated the zucchini I opted to toss it in the food processor to get the pieces as small as possible. I'm glad I did because the one hunk I bit into in my finished product added a lot of bitterness to that bite. It didn't taste like vegetable, but it wasn't sugary goodness like the other bites.

All in all, it's decent, and I'd eat it again. I think it tastes a lot like the Amish Friendship Bread that uses vanilla pudding. (Mostly because flour, sugar, and cinnamon are the main ingredients of both!) I do prefer banana bread, but neither one is all that healthy so I won't be eating either on a daily basis. :)

My picture shows why I don't bake more often! :)

Day 170 - June 19

Last night & this morning, we made these cinnamon rolls.  I have wanted to try it for awhile, and have been waiting for a weekend where I had a few hours at night to get them ready followed by a day where I  didn't have to be anywhere in the morning so I could do part 2.

The ingredients to these delicious hunks of yumminess (was that redundant?) are not healthy in anyway, but boy were they good.

Things we learned to fix for next time - spend the time to roll the dough out more.  The slab was still pretty thick when we slathered on the swirl.  Also, wait even more time before putting the icing on.

These were more cake-like than the rolls that come in the tube from the grocery store.  I forgot to take the butter out of the fridge in time for it to become room temperature, so I used the microwave.  It got a little more than room temp, and I think that inhibited the yeast from rising as much as it normally would. 

I wish we had a food scale so I could weigh one.  They were crazy heavy.  To round out the breakfast, we had turkey bacon (which was WAY better than I thought it would be) and the last of the hardboiled eggs from salad night earlier this week.  Thank goodness for that, because this cinnamon roll by itself would have killed me!

Day 113 - April 23

I got chosen by a local company to be a tester for some of their new products.  We got this in the mail this week with a recipe.  We're supposed to follow the recipe to a T and then fill out a survey.  I got to pick from several different recipe options, and this is similar to something we already cook, but with a little added flavor.  All I need now is chicken and I'm good to go ....