Zucchini Banana Oat Bread

ETA: I will only make this in two of my smaller loaf pans, ever. lol. 

I tried this recipe six years ago and pinned it to my "tried and approved" board. Today I made it again and shared it with a friend. It is SO yummy! You can find the original post HERE. 

From the comments, someone suggested adding in chocolate chips, so today one loaf had none and the other two loaves had maybe 2/3 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips.

The loaves are very short, splitting the batter into three pans. I might try using just two, larger bread pans... I don't know how much that would effect the baking time. But for three loaves that are less than 2 inches tall, it baked 40 minutes in my oven.

I am linking it here and copying over the recipe because the original post is eight years old and I don't want it to disappear. Also, I refer to this blog way more often than I look at Pinterest for food ideas. I get too distracted on Pinterest! And this is a keeper! 

Zucchini Banana Oat Bread
from Amanda Rettke at I Am Baker.

INGREDIENTS

• 1½ cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• ½ teaspoon salt
• 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
• 1 cup oats
• 1 cup granulated sugar
• 2 large eggs
• 1 cup canola oil
• 2 teaspoons vanilla
• 2 ripe bananas, mashed
• 3 cups shredded zucchini
  
  INSTRUCTIONS

  1. Heat oven to 350°F and prepare loaf pans. (I used three small loaf pans.)

  2. In large bowl add flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, and oats. Stir together.

  3. In a smaller bowl combine sugar, eggs, oil, vanilla, and mashed banana.
     Pour sugar mixture into the flour mixture and stir by hand. Add in zucchini and mix until well incorporated.

  4. Bake for 35-45 minutes or until bread pulls away from sides of pan and an inserted toothpick is removed clean.

Burt's Potato Salad

• 6 Russet Potatoes, about 2 to 2 1/2 lbs, baked or pressure cooked whole and refrigerated until cold, pealed and chopped into chunks that are about 1/2 to 3/4 of an inch.
• 8 hard boiled eggs, refrigerated till cold, peeled and chopped
• 1 red onion finely minced
• 3/4 cup Miracle Whip salad dressing
• 1/2 cup mayonnaise
• 1/4 cup ketchup
• 3 tbsp mustard, regular, Dijon, deli, whatever you have
• 1 1/2 tsp dill weed
• Salt and pepper to taste
• Sprinkle with paprika to garnish

Combine chopped potatoes, chopped eggs, and minced onion. Stir to combine. Sprinkle on salt, pepper, and dill weed. Stir again to even distribute seasoning. Combine Miracle Whip, mayo, ketchup and mustard in a bowl and mix to together. Dump dressing onto potato mixture then stir to combine. Sprinkle on the paprika to garish. Cover and put into the fridge for a couple of hours to chill and let the flavor combine.

Tin Foil Dinner!

The other night I wanted to make tin foil dinners....but it's been so many years that I was a little concerned I'd forget something important..... I finally decided to look up a recipe or two to make sure I didn't skip anything, and ended up following THIS recipe almost exactly. Four out of five of us really enjoyed it, so we'll keep it here for next time! 

This was the ingredient list, and I'll tell you what changes I made.

• 1 pound lean ground beef
• ▢1 package dry onion soup mix
• ▢4 small potatoes peeled and sliced
• ▢2 cups carrots chopped
• ▢1 large or 2 small onions, sliced
• ▢2 tablespoons olive oil
• ▢1 teaspoon garlic powder
• ▢salt & pepper to taste
• ▢condensed mushroom soup

My quantities made 6 meals.
I used 1.5 lbs of ground beef, which I did mix with a packet of dry onion soup. I did five potatoes, peeled and sliced. I did two very large and three small carrots, and a little more than half an onion. I did not mix the vegetables, I layered them like I am accustomed to. I layered some potatoes in each, then sprinkled with a bit of seasoning salt. Then I added the carrots, then some onion, and then I drizzled on olive oil, with a bit of kosher salt and one twist of black pepper. Then I put the meat patty on top of that, and put roughly two tbsp cream of mushroom soup on top of that. I spread it a little over the meat, then folded the tin foil up around it, and laid four meals on a hot baking sheet that had preheated in the oven, at 375. After 45 mins, we ate!
Then I cooked the last two because someone came home from work late, and the 6th meal was eaten as leftovers the next night! 

I did toss maybe 1 tbsp of the cream of mushroom soup because I honestly didn't feel like I could add any more to the meals, and I had no idea what we would do with the leftover bit. That can was in our food storage a long time... 
The only complaints were that two people would have preferred a lot more potatoes and another would have liked a lot more carrots, so next time I'll do more vegetables. But it was tasty, and the flavors also worked well with A1 sauce on the meat! 

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7/20/2022
I forgot what I was doing and diced the onion, so I put that down first, then a hamburger patty, with a couple drops of worcestershire sauce, a bit of black pepper, then cream of mushroom soup, potatoes, carrots, and a bit of seasoning salt.