Every single year I vow I'll only plant one zucchini plant, and every year I plant four. It's great when they first start fruiting. I never buy them out of season, partly due to expense and partly due to the fact they're usually scarred, flaccid things. Homegrown is the bomb.
If you have ever grown them, you know if you turn your back on a growing zucchini, you'll end up with something rather like a zeppelin - freaking massive, needing two hands to lift it and becoming the impetus for jokes that usually involve oversized penises, as the photo of my Dad below attests, taken during the Great Zucchini Harvest of 2010.
I was looking through some recipes for zucchini cake the other day and came across variations of chocolate zucchini muffins with various flours. The following is a bit of a mish mash of the recipes I found online and what I felt would work for me, such as experimenting with eggless eggs mix. They worked beautifully, although disappeared fast. It doesn't matter though - I have heaps more zucchinis coming out of the garden.
ZUCCHINI CHOCOLATE EXPRESSO MUFFINS
1 cup almond flour
1 cup buckwheat flour
1/2 cup tapioca flour
3 tsp egg replacer (I used Orgran)
1 cup cacao (I used a cacao/maca blend I had!)
3 tbsp nut butter (I used peanut/hemp seed blend)
3/4 cup coconut milk or other vegan milk
3 tbsp coconut oil
2 tbsp vegan margarine/butter
2 teaspoons bicarb soda
3 tbsp apple cider vinegar
1 medium zucchini or 2 small zucchinis, chopped
3/4 cup rice syrup (can substitue 1/2 cup maple syrup)
1/2 cup fresh made strong expresso
Blend all the ingredients in a food processor (you can do it without one, but make sure you grate the zucchini first). Place into muffin cups in a muffin tray and cook at 160 degrees C for 40 minutes.
Ice with chocolate icing mix of your choice if you really want to make it chocolatey! You can use two cups of almond flour if you like, which I do prefer, but almond flour is frigging expensive so half half worked just fine.
Now I just have to figure out what to do with the squashes.
The Great Squash Harvest of 2010. Will the harvest be as ridiculously fruitful this year?
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Hahahaha I love your zucchini bra!
The recipe looks healthy and balanced, I haven't tried this vegetable in baked goods yet.
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Ah I keep throwing vegetables at you that you haven't used much @kotturin! It adds moisture but doesn't taste like zucchini. A lot of people make zucchini cake, like carrot cake. It's a good way to use them up anyway!! But I really liked these ones a lot. You could make a similiar recipe.with flour and eggs.
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Pretty much, although I am very familiar with zucchinis and squash, they just aren't really used in baking much here (or maybe I just don't know it) haha
Thank you!
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Love the photos and those miffins look delicious!
Zucchini is so versatile - I could eat it every day! I didn't get many last year, the squash beetles were horrid but we did ok, I've still got jars of it in the freezer grated and ready to add to muffins and nut breads etc.
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Ah, clever! You are the preserving queen. I just remembered I really wanted to make zucchini pickle! I will do that soon. X
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I know the feeling with these. The problem I have is slugs.. I plant loads because of them but if I have a good survival year I end up with 2 or more.
My natural usage rate is about 2 medium size ones per week, not 8.
That muffin recipe looks good... but there's only 1 courgette amidst those ingredients.
I guess you'll just have to use the rest for more phallic pictures!
As to other types have squash have you not yet learned the most valuable lesson... just don't bother!
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Ahahah... well, I know squash make good food for chickens!!!
Have you tried zoodles? Such a good alternative to pasta and is helping us get through them well!!
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I've never tried them... I can't be dealing with all the prep tbh!
If I'm eating pasta it's generally to fuel for a run so I don't need a low cal alt.
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They are also rubbish to slurp....
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Thanks for sharing the recipe, I love zucchini in every form :)
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You are welcome!!
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This is the most erotic steem post I have seen this year! Food porn indeed!
The muffins look really good @riverflows! My mom makes a delicious zucchini bread in a similar spirit. But chocolate and zucchini... nice combo!
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Ah yes I used to make zucc loaf/cake. Yum! But this is definitely better.. or maybe just a good change!
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Those muffins inspire me to bake @riverflows! We haven't started growing our own vegetables here yet... but zucchini and butternut squash will most definitely be top of the list! Love your posts! 🤗
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Yum. We grow a lot of squash inside and out. Last year the squash bugs got all the squash and pumpkin plants outside. Will be vertical gardening this year to be able to get all of the bugs. Will also be trying corn meal against the squash bugs which is supposed to cause them to overeat, swell up and die :-)
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Okay, you and your dad are hilarious. Also, YUM!
reaches through the screen, steals a muffin
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