Speaking of turning things laying around the kitchen into irresistible goodies, my mother came home last week with a few zucchinis from her best friend's vegetable garden and requested I try making a zucchini bread for her. Unable to acquire a summer job and bored out of my wits—how could I resist?

So bright-eyed and naive, I set out to meet my mother's demands. The preparation process was much more time-consuming and labor-intensive than I had anticipated and my *poor little handmixer, passed down by my mother, nearly beat its little heart out mixing the incredibly dense batter.

*NOTE: request new handmixer for Christmas...or maybe even a standmixer! *wishful thinking*

I apologize for the lack of pictures documenting the preparation, zucchini-bread-in-the-making is not nearly as appealing as zucchini bread fresh (and solid) out of the oven. The grating of the zucchini itself (it took me 3 large zucchinis) was rather messy and burdensome—imagine zucchini-string covered fingers and you'll understand why I wasn't able to take pictures, much less wield a camera.