What a Zucchini!!!

 

Here’s a picture of a zucchini:

Here’s a picture of me holding a zucchini:

That is one big zucchini!  My neighbour gave me one the other day.  So, what am I going to do with the zucchini?  Well, yesterday, I spent the day figuring out what to do with it.  I decided to use it and make Zucchini Cake and Zucchini Pasta with Spicy Tomato Sauce.

 

Zucchini Cake

1 cup of all purpose flour

1/2 cup of white sugar

1/2 cup of brown sugar

1/4 cup of cocoa

1 tsp of baking soda

1/2 tsp of baking powder

1/4 tsp of salt

1/2 tsp of cinnamon

2 eggs

3/4 cup of vegetable oil

1 1/2 cups of grated zucchini

 

Preheat oven at 350 degrees.

Mix all dry ingredients in a large bowl.  Then add eggs and oil and mix well.  Fold in zucchini.  Pour batter into a greased 9 inch round baking pan.  Bake for 50 to 60 minutes or until knife inserted into centre comes out clean.  Cool cake before frosting.

 

Here’s a picture of the zucchini cake that I made yesterday.

Unfortunately, my zucchini cake fell apart as I was prying it out of the pan.  Oh well, what can you do!  I just sprinkled some icing sugar and it was good to go!

 

Zucchini Pasta and Spicy Tomato Sauce

I discovered Zucchini Pasta from www.frontburnerblog.com  Zucchini Pasta is taking a zucchini and using a vegetable peeler to make long ribbons of “pasta”.

Then you saute the zucchini in a little olive oil and salt and pepper.

Now here’s the recipe for the Spicy Tomato Sauce:

1 tbsp of olive oil

2 garlic gloves minced

1/2 cup of chopped red onion

1/2 cup of chopped onion

1 can of tomatoes

1 tsp of salt and pepper

1 tsp of cayenne pepper

two or three dashes of hot sauce

1/2 jalapeno pepper chopped

1/4 cup of chopped cilantro

Saute garlic, red onion, and onion in a pan for two to three minutes.  Add remaining ingrediants and simmer for five to ten minutes.

And here’s the finished product!

This was the first time I made this and it was absolutely delicious!