Zucchini Bread

My grandparents have given me a lot of zucchini from their garden.  I've made the muffins, fried zucchini, the zucchini flowers so I had to make zucchini bread.

This makes two loaves which is plenty: one for you and one for a friend!

Ingredients:
3 eggs
2 cups sugar
2 cups vegetable oil
2 tsp vanilla
2 cups grated zucchini
3 cups flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
1/2 tsp baking powder
3 tsp cinnamon
nuts and/or raisins

Directions:

1. Peel the skin off the zucchini.  Using a grater or a food processor, grate zucchini into thin slivers.

2. Lightly beat the eggs; then add the sugar.    Add the remaining ingredients one at a time (the order doesn't really matter), saving the nuts and/or raisins until the end.  When everything is mixed well, add in the chopped nuts and/or raisins.  (I used about 1-2 handfuls of walnuts that I roughly chopped.)

3. Pour into two greased and floured bread pans.  Bake about 60-70 minutes in a 350F preheated oven.  Toothpick inserted will come out clean when it's ready.

4.  Cool slightly in pan then remove to cooling rack to cool completely.

To store it, wrap it in foil.  It can also be frozen.  This makes such a moist loaf and the walnuts add the perfect crunch.