Possibly the one thing I love more than bread products is the spreads and shmears that accompany them. I love experimenting with flavored butters, cream cheeses, and dips that double as wrap or sammy spreads.

Enter: Tomato Butter. I worried that it might taste like tomato sauce on bread, but it’s the perfect balance of tangy, savory tomato and sweet, creamy butter. It’s ready in about five minutes and can be used for bread, bagels, or wherever else you might spread butter.

If you’re fortunate enough to have your own veggie garden, have access to a community garden, or have been to a summer farmer’s market, you know summer time is prime zucchini season. Growing up, my dad would plant summer squash in our garden and we would have buckets and buckets of zucchini. By summer’s end, we were sick of grilled squash and practically had a conveyor belt of zucchini bread shipping out to neighbors and friends.

I really took those summers for granted — all the missed opportunities to experiment with zucchini recipes! — and I still find myself nostalgic every time I see or make zucchini bread. Now, it seems zucchini has become best known as…