Friday, July 18, 2008

Zucchini Bread


This is my Grandma Elaine's recipe and every one in my family loves it. Sometimes when I bake things, people don't eat them all. They have one or two and then let them sit on the counter till they are stale and hard. This is the one recipe that never last more then three days in my house, even when I double the recipe it still gets eaten. The last time I made this I had them sitting on the cooling rack on our kitchen and walked upstairs to talk to my mom about something. I hear something moving in the kitchen so I go back down to see what it is. I find my dog Daisy with her front paws on the counter devouring a loaf of my bread. Even though she got in trouble, she knew it was worth it.



The half eaten loaf of bread thanks to Daisy


Zucchini Bread
3 cups flour
2 cups sugar
2 cups grated zucchini
2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp baking powder
1 tbs cinnamon
1 tsp vanilla
pinch of salt

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Combine all dry ingredients together with the grated zucchini. Mix in all wet ingredients and pour into 4 small greased loaf pans or 2 large loaf pans. Bake for 45 min. for small pans and an hour and 15 min for large. Let cool on wire rack and cut into slices.

Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Blueberry and Raspberry Crisp


hot out of the oven!


This is the same idea as the peach crisp I posted with out pictures a few weeks ago, just I put this in individual dishes and used what I had on hand - frozen berries! This was soo good hot out of the oven with a scoop of ice cream on top of it. I really like most anything with a crisp, especially this recipe for it. I really like this recipe because its very rough and you can make it for one or a bunch of people with out much problem and its very easy to adjust to your personal tastes.



Blueberry and Raspberry Crisp
Filling:
1 cup blueberries
1 cup raspberries
1/3 cup flour
1/4 cup brown sugar

Crisp:
2/3 cup rolled oats
2/3 cup flour
1 stick butter, melted
1/2 tps cinnamon
1/4 cup sliced almonds
1/4 tps salt
1/4 cup raw sugar

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Mix all filling ingredients together. Place filling in four individual oven-proof ramekins. Mix all crisp ingredients together and top the filling filled ramekins with it and bake for 25-35 minuets or until the topping is golden brown and the filling is bubbling.




so tasty....