Zucchini Bread

What does one do when they are procrastinating a paper due in December (that's really far away), and they received a local produce box with 3 zucchinis in it? Make Zucchini Bread!!!!

Super easy recipe, the hardest part is grating the zucchini. I highly recommend using a food processor for this!

Ingredients:

3 cups flour
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder

3 teaspoons ground cinnamon
3 eggs
1 cup vegetable oil
2 1/4 cup white sugar
3 teaspoons vanilla extract
2 c grated zucchini

Directions:

1. Grease two 8x4 inch pans. Preheat the oven to 325 F, or in my case make an educated guess because my oven's numbers disappear before 450 F. I would suggest a working internal oven thermometer in this case. For some reason mine isn't working....

2. Mix flour, salt, baking powder, baking soda, and cinnamon in a bowl.

3. Beat the eggs, oil, vanilla, and sugar in a large bowl. I decided to use my Kitchen Aid mixer. Then, gradually add the dry ingredients. Stir in the zucchini. This is also where one could add walnuts or chocolate chips. I didn't have any on hand so it is plain zucchini bread.

4. Pour into the prepared pans and place in the center of the oven for 40 to 60 minutes. Mine took over 60 minutes. You can check when bread is down by inserting a toothpick. Bread is ready when the toothpick comes out clean.

5. Cool on a rack for about 20 minutes. Then remove it from the pan and let it cool completely. I found this last step near impossible.

6. Mailman and Enjoy!

Grilled Tomato and Cheese on Toast with a Fried Egg

This is a meal I had nearly every day on Inishbofin this summer, well not every day but at least twice a week after it's discovery! I eat it for breakfast, lunch, and dinner because it is delicious. If you haven't noticed I have a lot of quick easy, semi-well rounded meals (This one has a tomato in it!). I am super excited to move into a new apartment in August (with more kitchen space) and do fun/semi-elaborate like bake bread!

Ingredients-
1 egg
1 slice of sandwich bread
1 tomato
1/4 c Shredded Cheese (I totally made up this amount, really I make it super cheesy)
Cooking spray (I use a Misto filled with Olive Oil)
salt and pepper
Hot sauce/spicy spices

Sometimes I get super hungry and double the recipe, and by sometimes I mean most of the time.

Directions-
First toast the bread. While the bread is toasting slice the tomato. I tend to remove the guts of the tomato so the bread doesn't get too soggy (even though you pre-toast it I still gut them). I use a toaster oven for all toasting. It makes clean up super easy, but I suppose you could do the next step in a proper oven. Next take your toast, add a layer of sliced tomatoes, top with shredded cheese (Sometimes I uses slices).  Put it in the toaster oven on Medium.

Cheese!

While the bread/cheese/tomato are in the toaster oven I fry the egg. You can prepare the egg any way you like, but I like over easy so it can be gooey.

Then I plate it up! Bread first, then the egg on top. I chose to add some spices with a little kick to the egg. Please note the Cholula in the picture. I used it too.

This was a dinner meal- note the wine. If there was a bloody it would have been breakfast! Speaking of which- if anyone has a really good bloody from scratch mix I would be interested!

Don't forget to mailman!