Skinny Zucchini Muffins

I love love love summer vegetables. I actually always have. I don't think I ever had that typical kid's aversion to veggies. In fact, my favorite color is green. So I probably just ate them for that reason. When I was growing up, we had a garden in the backyard. It was a pain to keep up with the weeding, I especially hated being assigned the corn rows because I had an uncanny knack for finding spiders in those stalks. The big, black, hairy kind... (is there really any other kind of spider?). But I thought that the whole concept of a garden was the neatest thing since sliced bread. The process was fascinating to me.  You dig a hole, bury a seed inside, give it a little water and poof... food! Okay, it's a little more complicated than that... but that's basically what happens isn't it? And to a kid, that's practically magic.

Of course, even though I really loved veggies (green beans, zuchinni, bell peppers, corn on the cob... mmmm) I still didn't love the idea of putting them in my sweets and bread til I'd gotten a little older. Now I'm a fan. And I'm a fan of these muffins. Sweet and hearty at the same time, so classic, so delicious. And healthy with a little fiber bonus thrown in there! So you can have two if you're feelin it.