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Seasonal Recipe and Beer Pairing: Death by Chocolate Zucchini Bread

Delish: Eat Like Every Day’s the Weekend by Joanna Saltz and the Editors of Delish (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018, $30)

 To be totally fair, zucchini bread is one of those halfway-healthy recipes that barely makes the cut. But it’s got green in it—and that’s good enough for us. This recipe is deeply chocolatey but also delightfully light—so you can eat an entire loaf while watching ‘Game of Thrones’ and not totally lose your self-respect.

• 1/2 cup (1 stick) melted butter, plus more for greasing pan

• 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder, plus more for dusting pan

• 1-1/4 cups all-purpose flour

• 1 tsp. baking soda

• 1 tsp. ground cinnamon

• 1/4 tsp. kosher salt

• 1 cup sugar

• 1 large egg

• 1 large egg yolk

• 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

• 2 cups grated zucchini (from 1 large or 2 or 3 small)

• 2/3 cup semisweet chocolate chips

• Flaky sea salt, for garnish

1. Preheat oven to 350°F. Butter a 9x5-inch loaf pan and dust with cocoa powder, tapping out any excess.

2. In a large bowl, whisk together flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt.

3. In another large bowl, stir together sugar, egg, and egg yolk until smooth, 1 minute. Add melted butter and vanilla and mix until smooth, then fold in zucchini. Gradually add flour mixture, then fold in chocolate chips. Transfer batter to prepared pan.

4. Bake until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, 50 minutes.

5. Let bread cool in pan 10 minutes, then invert onto a wire rack to cool completely.

6. Sprinkle with flaky sea salt, slice, and serve. Serves 6.



Knee Deep Brewing Company’s Tanilla Porter

Knee Deep Brewing Company’s Tanilla Porter


ABV: 6.3%
While you’re dying by chocolate, why not be revived by vanilla? Auburn’s beloved Knee Deep Brewery makes a Tanilla Porter that delivers amazing aromas of coffee, followed by a smooth chocolate flavor, and delicate intensity of grade A Tahitian vanilla beans. While the beer looks dark and bitter, don’t be fooled; with an IBU (international bitterness unit) of only 30, it falls pretty low on the scale. Much like this month’s recipe, it won’t sit heavy and pairs particularly well with sweet treats, thanks to a subtle carbonation that allows it to go down easy. While Knee Deep is mostly known for their IPAs and other hoppy beers, this offering demonstrates the brewery’s ability to produce other styles with great success. 

—Greg Salva, 36 Handles