{"id":59,"date":"2013-01-14T12:28:15","date_gmt":"2013-01-14T12:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/?p=59"},"modified":"2013-01-14T12:28:15","modified_gmt":"2013-01-14T12:28:15","slug":"sweet-potato-spoon-bread-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/?p=59","title":{"rendered":"Sweet Potato Spoon Bread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If <a href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/topics\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/w\/alice_waters\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Alice<\/a> validated my love of simple, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.101cookbooks.com\/\" target= _blank\">Heidi<\/a> encouraged me to experiment. To be adventurous with ingredients I have or don&#8217;t have. To seek a foundation for the ingredients I have on hand and adapt a recipe to them. And I&#8217;ve been successful! When I was much younger (although it doesn&#8217;t seem as much!), I used to think exotic spices, herbs and other ingredients created a great dish. I could not have been more wrong.<br \/>\nI have since learned that good old salt and pepper can be the best seasoning, maybe butter, garlic and olive oil, too.<br \/>\nHeidi does create recipes with ingredients that I would not necessarily consider combining though and her Sweet Potato Spoon Bread recipe is one of them. But, like I said, she taught me to take more risks in the kitchen. After all, if I&#8217;m going to live on the edge, the kitchen&#8217;s a fairly safe place to do it. So, I gave the spoon bread a try. And it was delish! So good that I have since repeated it and also discovered another blogger&#8217;s recipe that is a sweet potato soup with goat cheese biscuits. In the interest of simple and ease though, I use Heidi&#8217;s from her cookbook Super Natural Cooking, leaving out the shallots. So it&#8217;s basically just the mashed sweet potatoes with some whole wheat pastry flour and eggs stirred in, layered in a casserole with dollops of creamy goat cheese and baked. Even Marty likes it! Super Natural Cooking was the first cookbook I&#8217;d bought new in decades. I highly recommend it with the caveat that one way I&#8217;ve figured out I must buy a certain book is when I&#8217;ve checked it out from the library several times, keeping it on my shelf longer than the library&#8217;s probably had it on theirs!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Alice validated my love of simple,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[631],"tags":[27,25,26,24,31],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","tag-baking","tag-cookbooks","tag-cooking","tag-recipes","tag-the-library"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions\/96"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}