OMG! Zucchini Bread

3 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
3 cups sugar
1 cup vegetable oil
4 eggs, beaten
1/3 cup water
2 cups grated zucchini
1 teaspoon lemon juice
1 cup chopped walnuts or pecans (optional)

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. In a large bowl, combine flour, salt, nutmeg,
baking soda, cinnamon and sugar. In a separate bowl, combine oil, eggs,
water, zucchini and lemon juice. Mix wet ingredients into dry, add nuts and
fold in. Bake in 2 standard loaf pans, sprayed with nonstick spray, for 1
hour, or until a tester comes out clean. Alternately, bake in 5 mini loaf
pans for about 45 minutes

In addition to traditional yummy sweet zuke bread, one can also make a yummy SAVORY one by reducing the sugars and adding parmesan cheese, pine nuts, herbs and even chopped sun-dried tomatoes. Try it for somethin' just a wee bit different!

Oohh sweet! Can't wait to give this recipe to my grandma (too lazy to bake, I'll wait until summer is over). I usually buy zucchini bread loaves at the organic market, but they recently have been increasing the price, it went from $5 to $9. Crazy!