Now I know that everyone has had zucchini bread.  It’s the gold-standard way to use zucchini.  There are literally millions of zucchini bread recipes on the internet, millions. My mom always has hundreds of zucchini each summer.  It’s like she always ended up with mutant zucchini plant seeds, and as the plants grew they would morph into these monstrous zucchini plants that took over the garden.  And then the squash bugs would emerge.  Squash bugs are so gross.  I hate all bugs…. except butterflies and ladybugs.  As kids we would have to go out to the garden and turn over the giant scratchy zucchini leaves to check for squash bugs and to make sure they didn’t destroy the plants.  While checking for squash bugs we would inevitably come across the “Hulk” zucchini that was hiding away in the middle of the plant.  It’s like the zucchinis quadrupled in size overnight!  And what do you do with giant zucchinis? You make zucchini bread!… 

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