Thursday, November 15, 2012

Sweet Potato Cornbread - why not?

Every once in awhile I get motivated to bake something.  I'm weirded out by all the strange ingredients I find in food at the grocery stores and sometimes I wonder why there is so much sugar or salt in some of them.  So I like to try and make it at home. Especially if it calls for flour, so that way I can use organic whole wheat flour.

I order from Door to Door Organics and I had purchased a lot of sweet potatoes because it was the food of the moment for my daughter.  Then the moment passed and I was left with a lot of sweet potatoes.  Thankfully the next shipment I received contained an order for sweet potato cornbread.  I love corn bread.  I absolutely do.  And I love sweet potatoes.  I was intrigued.  But I also like to cook vegan at home 80% of the time.  What did that mean?  Time to go to the magic of the internets!  I searched for vegan sweet potato corn bread and magically it appeared!  And it was very delicious.

I used this recipe:
http://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-3161/Vegan-Sweet-Potato-Cornbread.html

The real test is if my non vegan, non healthy eater husband eats his piece.  he did and went back for more. And other times I've made it, right after I take it from the oven, I'll find a big hunk missing.  He always said he had to make sure it was edible.  Apparently it is.

 The dry ingredients look kind of pretty in the bowl.

Look at the big chunks of sweet potato in there!  Yum!!!!