Zucchini Bread Made In My Tiny Kitchen

Today was a little cooler, so I baked some loaves of zucchini bread in my tiny kitchen. These freeze really well. (Forgive the shadows in the picture.) I love to smell things cooking in the kitchen! It really makes the house seem like "home". My mother baked almost every day! She still bakes quite often. ( She is almost 80.) I think I got my recipe addiction from her!



Zucchini Bread

3 eggs
1 cup oil
2 cups sugar
2 cups zucchini, peeled and grated
1 cup nuts (opt.)
3 cups flour
1/4 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. baking soda
2 tsp. cinnamon
1 tsp. nutmeg
3 tsp. vanilla

Beat eggs until light. Add sugar and oil; beat again. Add vanilla. Mix all dry ingredients, then add to egg mixture. Add zucchini. Have 2 bread pans well greased and bake in 325 degree oven about 1 hour. Test at 50 minutes. Enjoy! ( You may have to adjust this recipe for your area. I live at over 4,000 feet above sea level.)

I don't usually have the dogs in the kitchen when I am cooking. This picture was taken the day before. Phoebe's "daddy" opened a package of cereal to quickly and some fell onto the floor. She ate all she could, as fast as she could! She thinks she may see ( or smell) some more under the fridge. We checked- none there. This little dog is a food manic!



Hope you all have a great week!

Some God Given Beauty and Phoebe Too!

Wanted to share with you some pictures I took earlier today. We had some more rain and thunderstorms pass by and this is what they left behind for us besides the wonderful rain.

Yes, it is a double rainbow! Look closely to the left and you will see the faint second rainbow. It was so very pretty in real life. It looked like it came right out of the Fairmont Inn's roof and went all the way across town to the main street area. The colors were so vivid!




It stayed around for quite a while. Just west of the rainbow, we had some wonderful clouds I wanted to share also.




These are mammatus clouds. I don't ever remember seeing them before we moved out west. I know what they are because the local weatherman had pictures of some on his weathercast a few weeks ago and explained how they are formed. They usually appear after thunderstorms have passed by.



I took several pictures of them.




You can see that the skies were clearing just behind them.



Phoebe has been on a "no scraps" diet for the past few months. She had gained a little too much weight and it was hurting her. She had a good report from the vet and has lost some of her weight! This is her favorite treat - an almost empty jar of peanut butter! She holds it between her paws and licks it perfectly clean exactly halfway down the jar. You will notice it is reduced fat peanut butter. No need to go overboard here!



Have a great day!

Hail and Rain!

We had a really good rain! It started with a little hail and then lots of rain ( for us anyway). We had just watered a few plants earlier that day.



The rain sometimes comes down so fast that it fills up the low spots and roadways in our area quickly. This rain may have saved my lawn from being just a brown area. Now it is time to fight the weeds. They really sprout when they get a little water.



Everything does a better with a little water.



Especially, little boys!