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Here is a family favorite zucchini bread recipe for your celebration of National Zucchini Bread Day on April 25th. On the 24th, pull out your leftover frozen grated zucchini from last year’s harvest or load up the kids and let them each choose a fresh zuc from the local produce store. Have all your recipe ingredients ready for the next day’s celebrations! On the 25th, mix, bake and eat some bread, load up the kids and go buy new quality zucchini seeds from Western Gardens or any local independent garden center, and start the seeds indoors. The kids will love seeing these easy and fast seeds sprout and seedlings grow. If you live in the Salt Lake area, you’ll be safe to plant them outside in your garden after Mother’s Day in May!

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Banana Zucchini Bread Recipe by Amy Christensen / Cahoon Cook Book

3 eggs

2 cups sugar

1 cup canola oil

1 cup zucchini, grated

1 cup banana, mashed

1 tablespoon vanilla

3 cups flour

1 teaspoon baking powder

1 teaspoon salt

1 tablespoon cinnamon

1/2 cup semisweet chocolate chips, mini preferred

Combine first 6 ingredients together mixing well. Add flour, baking powder, salt and cinnamon. Mix in chocolate chips.

Bake in 325 degree oven for 1 hour.

Makes 3 small loaves.

Happy National Zucchini Bread Day everybody!

Welcome Zucchini Lovers. Celebrate with us!

You are just in time for National Zucchini Bread Day! If you included zucchini in last summer’s garden then there’s a good chance that your freezer is well stocked with leftovers from last year’s harvest. This easy to grow squash is notorious for producing more crop than gardeners know what to do with. If you still have a ziplock bag, or two, of frozen zucchini hanging around then you’re in luck! Now is the perfect time to defrost your zucchini leftovers because April 25th is National Zucchini Bread Day.

sliced zucchini bread for national food holiday

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Who doesn’t love an excuse to celebrate a national food day? With zucchini bread you have a way to satisfy your craving for warm carbohydrates while also getting in a serving of vegetables. Not to mention fiber! It’s always a plus when your fiber comes in the form of delicious bread. As an added bonus you’ll be able to either use up freezer leftovers or have an excellent excuse for finally starting your garden.

zucchini for national zucchini bread day

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If you don’t already have zucchini in your freezer, don’t panic. Pick up the produce at your local store and use fresh zucchini in your bread recipe. Then head to the garden center for seeds and celebrate National Zucchini Bread Day by planting something that you will enjoy both in a few months time and at next year’s celebration!

several varieties of zucchini seed packets

Quality seeds for a successful crop! Choose varieties that will thrive in your area.

Mid May happens to be an excellent time to plant zucchini seeds because the ground has begun to warm up. You can also begin your seeds indoors, but if you want to direct-seed and avoid transplanting then it’s best to wait until the soil temperature measures around 60-degrees. Check with your local independent garden center to know when it is ideal for planting your seeds. In Utah along the Wasatch Front, gardeners remember Mother’s Day as the time when the rest of the garden can be planted. Cold crops can be planted as early as March. Zucchini is definitely not a cold crop.

grate and freeze fresh zucchini for national zucchini bread day in april

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In the fall, if your plants have done well, you will most likely find yourself giving away zucchini. To friends, neighbors, coworkers, maybe even strangers. Even after all that generosity you should still have plenty of zucchini left to freeze for the following year. Preserving the squash is easily done. Wash the zucchini in cold water, pat it dry, then cut off both ends. Use a cheese grater to grate the plant and then store the grated zucchini in a well-labeled ziplock bag in the freezer. The vegetable should keep in the freezer for approximately eight months. Which means you’ll be prepared and ready to bake when National Zucchini Bread Day comes around again!

Click next for a simple delicious Banana Zucchini Chocolate Chip bread recipe. It will please everyone!