Too Much of a Good Thing

In one week our garden turned into attack of the killer zucchini! We came home to a yard full of these tasty giants. Suddenly, I feel like a wee little Fraggle hiding in the Gorgs enormous garden (remember that show?).
Anyway, when life gives you zucchini, you make zucchini everything! This vegetable has somehow made it into nearly every dish I've prepared in the past month. Yesterday, we made zucchini bread. Thank you, Paula Deen for the delicious recipe. I added a handful of chocolate chips at the end also. Enjoy!
Zucchini Bread:
3 1/4 c flour
1 1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp nutmeg
2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp ground cinnamon
3 c sugar
1 c veg oil
4 eggs (beaten)
1/3 c water
2 cups grated zucchini
1 tsp lemon juice
I also added:
* 1 tsp vanilla
*1 c chopped diced walnuts (or use pecans if you don't want to kill my sister or Anne Hepner.)
*1/2 semi-sweet chocolate chips

mix wet ingredients in one bowl
mix dry ingredients in another bowl
mix together
fold in nuts and chocolate chips
pour into two greased standard loaf pans and bake for 1 hr at 350* or until tester comes out clean. It took another 5-8 minutes before mine was done.