Abundanza and a Wickedly Rich Chocolate Zucchini Bread recipe

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sweet nectarines

Beautiful ripe plums

apricots

Baby yellow pear tomatoes not yet ripe.

and zucchini!!!!!

I am going to snatch this zuke .......

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we have had many many zucchini, I mean many zucchinis this year! We have had baked zucchini, and fried zucchini, zucchini in salad, zucchini fries, zucchini fritters, zucchini muffins ... (does this remind you of Forrest Gump?)

What else?

I needed to fulfill a menopausal chocolate craving

hmmmmm

Something chocolatey

really chocolatey

Chocolate Zucchini Bread

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I grated that bad boy

sifted the dry ingredients

mixed them all together in my mixer

Into the oven

SO moist, chocolatey and delish!

Chocolate Zucchini Bread

350 degrees - loaf pan

3 c. grated zucchini

3/4 c. canola oil

3 large eggs

1 tsp. good vanilla

1 c. white sugar

1/2 c. brown sugar

Mix the above in you mixer, or by hand (often times hand mixing is good therapy)

2. c. whole wheat pastry flour

1 c. unsweetened cocoa powder (I use Trader Joe's)

2 tsp. baking soda

1/2 tsp. baking powder

1 tsp. cinnamon

1/2 tsp ground allspice

1/2 tsp salt

Sift the dry ingredients and add them to the wet ingredients in the mixer. Mix just until incorporated.

At this point you can add chocolate chips, or walnuts.

Pour into a loaf pan that has been sprayed with Pam.

Bake for 1 hour or so until the toothpick comes out clean.

We enjoyed a piece with a glass of Grey Wolf's Lone Wolf wine.

It would be good with ice cream,

whipped cream,

raspberries,

just about anything that goes well with chocolate!

I am a new person ...

sans grumpiness or hot flashes!