Sweet Potato-Rosemary Bread
Comments (0) | Monday, May 3, 2010
The best Sundays begin with an early wake-up--no alarm necessary--then a fresh pot of coffee, honeyed toast, and a stack of catch-up reading, all savored well before the rest of the world stumbles out of bed. If I've got nowhere to be and no work to complete for a looming 9 a.m. Monday meeting, even better.
On a morning such as this, all the little projects schemed up on the commute to work seem possible. Sure, I can build a shelf over the window for my herbs and pepper plants. While I'm at it, why not organize the mystery cleaning supplies that have accumulated under the kitchen sink and the random nails and tools that live in the miscellany drawer? And, oh yeah, I should totally bake that bread I keep thinking about--so what that my apartment is already a freakishly humid 80°F at 8 a.m.?
I never did build that shelf (maybe next Sunday?) and my efforts at organizing were short-lived (I may have gotten side-tracked by a walk around the neighborhood), but I sure did bake that bread, and oh man was it worth the labor...and the heat. The crust came out crunchy but not too thick, and the bread itself is light, airy, and moist, with subtle hints of sweet potato and rosemary. Since it's not very dense, this is the perfect Thanksgiving bread--and a great vehicle for sopping up any last drops of gravy.
~Peggy
~Peggy
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