Babi's Zucchini Bread

Ingredients:
* 3 eggs
* 1 cup oil
* 2 cups sugar
* 2 cups grated zucchini
* 3 Tbspn vanilla
* 3 cups flour
* 1 tsp baking soda
* 1 tsp salt
* 3 tsp baking powder

Directions:
1. Combine eggs, oil, sugar, zucchini, and vanilla

2. In a separate bowl, combine flour, baking soda, salt, baking powder

3. combine wet and dry ingredients.

4. pour batter into greased loaf pan and bake at 325 for 1 hour.

Blueberry Muffins

I also use the basic muffin recipe and pretty regularly change up the fruit in it.

Ingredients:
* 1/2 cup unsalted butter, melted and cooled slightly
* 2 eggs
* 1/2 cup whole milk
* 2 cups AP flour
* 3/4 cups plus 1 tsp sugar, divided
* 2 tsp baking powder
* 1/2 tsp salt
* 2-1/2 cups fresh or frozen blueberries

Directions:
1. Whisk butter, eggs, and milk in a bowl.

2. Combine flour, 3/4 cup sugar, baking powder, and salt in a separate bowl.

3. Stir wet ingredients into dry ingredients until just combined. Don't overmix. Gently fold in berries.

4. Divide batter evenly among prepared cups. Sprinkle with remaining tsp sugar.

5. Bake at 375 until knife test is clean and the muffins are golden brown, about 25-30 minutes.

Skillet Focaccia and Dipping Oil

Ingredients:

Dough:
* 3/4 cup warm water
* 1/2 tsp sugar
* 1-1/2 tsp yeast
* 2 Tbsp olive oil
* 2 cups flour, divided
* 1/2 tsp salt

Parmesan butter brush:
* 3 Tbspn unsalted OR salted butter, melted
* 1 Tbspn grated parmesan cheese
* 1/2 tsp Italian seasoning
* optional minced garlic to taste

Instructions:
1. Place water and sugar in a large bowl of a stand mixer. Stir until sugar dissolves.

2. sprinkle yeast over the water and stir a few times. Let sit until foamy (about five minutes)

3. Turn the mixer on low speed and add 1 cup of flour and salt. Mix until combined. Add oil and mix well.

4. Gradually add as much of the remaining flour as you can. It can sometimes only be 3/4 of it. Mix until the dough pulls away from the sides of the bowl.

5. In the meantime, preheat the oven to 220 and when it's ready, turn it off. Keep the door closed.

6. Grease a 10 inch skillet.

7. Place dough on a floured surface and fold the dough a few times until you feel it's smooth and not sticky anymore. Shape into a ball. Roll it out to the size of the skillet.

8. Place in skillet. Stretch up the sides. Cover with a kitchen towel and place in the oven for 20 minutes. Take the skillet out and preheat the oven to 400. Make indentations in the dough with your fingers.

9. Mix "brush" ingredients and brush dough with HALF.

10. Place skillet with dough in preheated oven for 20 minutes.

11. brush with remaining "brush" mix and let cool.


DIPPING OIL Instructions:
1. Whisk to combine 1.4 cup olive oil, 12 tsp sundried tomato paste (I just used regular tomato paste) 1/8 tsp each: dried basil, thyme, rosemary, minced garlic, and a pinch of salt and pepper.

Quick French Bread

This easy recipe takes about an hour and makes 2 loaves!

Ingredients:
* 2-1/2 cups warm water
* 2 Tbspn yeast
* 2 Tbspn sugar
* 1 tsp salt
* 3 Tbspn oil
* 5-1/2 - 6 cups flour

Directions:
1. Add yeast, then sprinkle the sugar over the water. Let sit for about 5 minutes until you see the yeast get bubbly on top.

2 Stir in the salt, oil, and flour.

3. Knead the dough for a few minutes until it is smooth and pulls away from the bowl.

4. cover the bowl with a warm, wet towel and let the dough sit for about 15 minutes.
*****Tip: Put a bowl of water in the microwave and run it for about 2 minutes. Then, take the bowl of water out and set your bowl of bread dough in the warm microwave for the 15 minutes. This moist, warm environment makes the bread rise a lot faster.

5. Divide the dough into 2 long loaves. Place side by side on a greased cookie sheet. Then, take a knife and slash the tops diagonally. Allow loaves to sit while you preheat the oven to 375.

6. Bake for 30-35 minutes until golden brown.

Banana Muffins

This is by far, the best of many banana muffin recipes I've tried.

Ingredients:
* 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
* 1 teaspoon baking powder
* 1 teaspoon baking soda
* 1/2 teaspoon salt
* 3 large bananas, mashed
* 3/4 cup white sugar
* 1 egg
* 1/3 cup butter, melted

Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Coat muffin pans with non-stick spray, or use paper liners. Sift together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt; set aside.
2. Combine bananas, sugar, egg, and melted butter in a large bowl. Fold in flour mixture, and mix until smooth. Scoop into muffin pans.
3. Bake in preheated oven. Bake mini muffins for 10 to 15 minutes, and large muffins for 25 to 30 minutes. Muffins will spring back when lightly tapped.