Zucchini Muffins
(Couldn't think of a clever sub title this time)

As most of my readers know by now, I follow a lot of food blogs and hope some day that I can some day be like a select few of them. With that being said, I would like to tell you about my food revelation this weekend! 

Monday, August 8th is National Zucchini Day! Who knew that in the United States we not only have National Holidays like Labor Day we also have the lesser known, lesser celebrated food holidays?! One almost every day of each and every month and some months are dedicated to certain ingredients. Such as August is Peach Month? Did you know that? Me neither, well at least I didn't know until recently! 

So, for Zucchini Day, I decided I wanted to make something and participate in some small way in this cool holiday! Most often people use Zucchini as a savory ingredient, but I enjoy using savory ingredients in sweet baked items when I can. 

The recipe that I used is a Zucchini Bread/Loaf recipe but it also states that you can make it into muffins, which is what I did. There are two different ways to use zucchini, skin on or skin off. I am more of the skin off type in a sweet recipe. I certainly recommend, as I have in the past, using Organic Zucchini and as many organic ingredients as possible when cooking or baking. As I've been trying to convince my picky eater husband, in this particular recipe, you can't detect the taste of Zucchini. Zucchini is the type of vegetable, even when used in savory recipes takes on the flavors of the other ingredients in the dish, by itself it doesn't really have much flavor.

The finished product of these muffins is a bread like muffin that is sweet with a bit of spice. I finally got my husband to try it to his exclaim "why does it taste like cinnamon?", of course my response was, "you don't taste zucchini do you?" and he said no and that he liked them. Score one for me! My husband actually ate something with zucchini in it. If you only knew how big of an accomplishment this is for me!  

The original recipe is from a food blogger who I follow. Her site can be found here and the link for the recipe is here.

Ingredients for the recipe are displayed below. The Zucchini, once again is Organic. I was a little over excited when purchasing the Zucchini at Whole Foods Market so as usual bought too much. It is possible that later on this week I will be trying a new recipe with Zucchini because this beautiful vegetable simply cannot go to waste!

Muffins just going into the oven, the batter is sweet but not overwhelmingly so!

Baked muffins, the scent is of cinnamon and nutmeg which smells amazing and fills the house with a "Thanksgiving" like aroma! 

Hanging out on a cooling rack, I couldn't resist trying one a few minutes out of the oven. Even scalding hot, it was delicious!

A cut in half muffin. You can see that the muffins are slightly dense but they are incredibly moist. 

I highly recommend this recipe. The only change I might make if I make it again is to add another 1/2 cup of nuts making it one full cup of nuts. Of course I like nuts in recipes, but if you aren't a huge nut fan you could conceivably remove them from the recipe entirely and I think they would be just as good!

Later on this week? National S'More Day! Woo Hoo! I'm loving the food holidays!