• About
  • Speaking
  • Consulting
  • Amber Hinds

  • Journal
  • Press
  • Contact

Amber Hinds

Nantucket, MA
30 Days of Thanks, Recipes & Canning
/
November 14, 2011

30 Days of Thanks: Sweet Potato, Apple, and Sage Spoon Bread

 

Adapted from Bon Appétit, November 2002
See more recipes here.

I hope you’re hungry, because this week is going to be recipe week on Au Coeur.  I have a huge backlog in my picture files (still thankful Chris rescued them!!) and am going to make myself share them with you.

Despite the barrage of recipes, I’m not a food blogger and I never will be.  First of all, there are way too many obstacles to me taking truly good pictures of food: my tiny kitchen with things all over the counter; the fact that I almost always have to cook late at night which equals horrendous lighting; my measly little point-and-shoot camera which does fine in natural lighting but is essentially no better than a cell phone in any other lighting; and the little hands that seem to make their way into nearly every shot I take during daylight.  (Those little hands, by the way, also do some potentially disastrous things to recipes when my back is turned…like pouring a whole glass of water into a bowl of whipped egg whites, jjust in case I forgot why I normally cook after bedtime.  Thankfully, the water poured right off, no harm done.)

Second, life just seems to get in the way.  I love food.  I’m so thankful for the amazing recipes shared by some of my currently favorite food bloggers and I do think many recipes are just dying to be shared.  Eating should be a communal experience and with family so far away and friends rarely sharing dinner I’m thankful for the breaking and sharing of bread online.  I want to participate in that, but when it comes down to it, there is only so much time and there are so many things to write about.  So food gets put on the back burner.

Third, of course, is that nagging little issue of our budget.  If money was no object, oh the things I would cook.  It took me forever to decide to make the recipe below, because it uses four eggs.  Four!  Lately, I’ve been trying to finagle recipes to only use one; four seemed like a huge number.  Finally, I couldn’t resist and broke down and made it.  And let me tell you, I couldn’t have just four eggs any better way than in sweet potato, apple, and sage spoon bread…

All that, and yet I do have good food writing intentions and so I take pictures and pictures and pictures as I cook.  And I even attempt to scribble down recipes for the things I ake off the top of my head, which is a challenge in itself since I don’t really measure much anymore.  So this week I’m going to put those good intentions to that test and I’ll add a few more recipes to the site for you to enjoy…though I’m sure my measly attempts at food blogging will remind us all to be thankful much better food bloggers are out there!  Oh, yes, and let’s be thankful for Epicurious, too.  My most favorite of online recipe banks.

Ingredients

 

  • 2 baked sweet potatoes, about 1 lb. (can be baked a day or two in advance)
  • 6 tablespoons unsalted butter
  • 1 6-ounce baking apple, peeled, cut into 1/2-inch chunks
  • 2 cups whole milk
  • 1 tablespoon (packed) golden brown sugar
  • 3 tablespoons chopped fresh sage
  • 2 teaspoons coarse salt
  • 1 cup cornmeal
  • 4 large eggs, separated
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
Directions

Peel sweet potatoes and put into a medium-large bowl.  Melt 2 tablespoons butter in heavy medium skillet over medium heat. Add apple; sauté until tender and golden, about 8 minutes. Add apple to sweet potato; mash together. (Can be made 1 day ahead. Cover and refrigerate.)

Preheat oven to 350°F. Bring milk, sugar, sage, and salt to boil in heavy medium saucepan. Reduce heat to medium-low; gradually whisk in cornmeal. Cook until cornmeal absorbs milk and pulls clean from bottom of pan, stirring constantly, about 5 minutes. Whisk in 3 tablespoons butter. Whisk yolks in large bowl to blend. Gradually whisk in warm cornmeal mixture. Whisk in baking powder. Mix sweet potato mixture into cornmeal mixture. Beat egg whites in medium bowl to medium-stiff peaks. Fold whites into warm cornmeal mixture.

Melt 1 tablespoon butter in large baking dish in oven.  Remove from oven and swirl pan to coat. Pour batter into baking dish. Transfer to oven; bake spoon bread until top is golden and puffed, about 1 hour. Serve warm.

⇗ Open full size image
0 of 0
TAGS:Foodside dishes
1 Comment
Share
  • Lovelorn Poets
    November 15, 2011

    That sounds awesome and I can’t believe that I actually have all of those ingredients in the kitchen! Will try this one out this weekend… 🙂

    Reply

Leave a Comment Cancel Comment

Recipe Rating




Previous Post
30 Days of Thanks: Report Card
Next Post
Pumpkin Ricotta Stuffed Shells

Life Right Now

aucoeur

View

Jul 16

9 1
Open
Z was Raja in an Aladdin production through her dance studio @pasgeorgetown this evening and she did such a great job. I loved watching her. She took a year off dance and is getting back into it and you'd barely know she took any time off, plus she had a big smile on her face the whole time - I could tell she was having a ton of fun. ♥️

aucoeur

View

May 29

15 0
Open
What happens when you go on a long weekend trip with only your husband, no kids, and no agenda? 

Lots of walking, cocktails in the middle of the day, singing at a piano bar, and time to write a blog post for the first time in nearly two years. Which I did! 

😮 For real. LOL 😊

Read it at https://amberhinds.com/2022/05/celebrating-15-years/

aucoeur

View

May 28

29 4
Open
Today Chris and I have been married for 15 years. We're celebrating with our first weekend away from children while my mom watches all four girls. We rented an old Victorian from the 1800s near the coast in Galveston, Texas and spent the day at a spa, eating delicious food, walking the beach under the stars, and finished the night with a bottle of bourbon saved from when we lived on Nantucket. I'm not sure I could have asked for a much better day. I even had an oppotunity to get out the lightship basket purse Chris gave me for our 5th anniversary. ♥️

aucoeur

View

Apr 2

6 0
Open
Multitasking between performances at this weekend's dance competition.

Image Alt: open laptop showing the Equalize Digital Accessibility Checker website in the foreground and an empty stage in a crowded auditorium.

aucoeur

View

Mar 13

12 1
Open
We had a cold snap and yesterday we had to get all bundled up for Zara's soccer game. It was 30 degrees and, despite these pictures, Vivi's patience for being out there did not last long. Tomorrow it's supposed to be 80 degrees and we're really looking forward to warmth again.

By the way, my awesome gaiter came from our client @isacattostudio. Isa paints patterns and makes really beautiful textiles and notebooks with her patterns. ♥️ her work and team.
  • Start Reading
  • Explore Topics
  • Get in Touch
  • Subscribe

COPYRIGHT © 2020 AMBER HINDS. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Site Powered by Pix & Hue.