it's that time of year

If you have a vegetable garden, or know anyone that has a vegetable garden, you know what time of year I'm talking about. My family refers to it as hide the zucchini time of year. Zucchini bread, zucchini muffins, grilled zucchini, zucchini pizza, where can you hide the zucchini?, and my favorite - chocolate zucchini cake.

Tonight we are celebrating Nana and Pappy's birthdays (they were born three days apart) and I have the honor of making the cake. Yup, a no-brainer. Chocolate zucchini cake. Especially since it is Pappy's favorite.

I have always loved how when you slice a zucchini the moisture oozes out and makes little beads, it's kind of pretty, and I had to make it my daily detail for today....

(if you click on the image to enlarge it the clarity of the beads is so much better)

 

A couple of years ago I was in a circle journal group and one of the journals focused on recipes. Since it was this time of year when the journal came to me I shared the recipe for chocolate zucchini cake. I still have the images from my entry...

 

The left page had a pocket that held the recipe and some pictures of the baking process...

 

If you are in need of a recipe for those baseball bat-sized zucchinis in your garden, email me and I'll gladly send you the recipe. Now, what to make with the other five zucchinis in my refrigerator....... :-)

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Note - I added a link to my design downloads in the right column (in case you missed yesterday's post on the doodle matchbook). I'll have the downloads in with the posts as I create them, but you'll still be able to easily access them afterwards in the right column. And yes, I am planning on creating more to share with you in the future! :-)

Comments

[Jeanne]

Oohh Patty that looks delicious. I'd love the recipe if you'll share. Thanks!

[Jen Davis]

I cannot wait until the day when we are in a house and I can have a garden and I then WILL have those giant zucchinis!!!! =) In the meantime you can send me the recipe and I'll use the millions of zucchini's that my friends offer up! =)

Love the photo!

Jen

[gigi]

i was JUST thinking of our cj group today!
i loved beth's recipe journal. your recipe sounds delish.