So, it's Thanksgiving, and my friend invites me to her pot luck dinner slash bike ride. I'm going to be taking a bus there, so I need to make a thing that can get survive a ride in a backpack and doesn't have to be piping hot. I'm going to be representing myself to a bunch of people I don't know, so what's my best option? Clearly, it is to make that bread I conceived based on loose thoughts a week ago. An experiment. If it goes wrong, I've nothing to show for myself. I'm a bad planner. Also exemplary of this is that I opt to not even shop until Thanksgiving morning.
I get up and run down the street to the grocery store and grab most of what I need. Everything, in fact, except the pumpkin, which they seem to be out of, and the muffin papers, which I know I can get at the dollar store. I swing by the dollar store, and they don't have any pumpkin either. I'm so distraught that I fail to get papers there, too.
When I get home I sit in my kitchen for a while. What else can I use that will be delicious like pumpkin and play the egg's roles in my bread rolls? I ponder for a while, and then notice the sweet potatoes in a bag on the table, "Surely," I think, "anything I can do with a pumpkin I can also do with a sweet potato."
Thus, the experiment begins.
I can't provide you with a ton of information on this sucker, as I hardly use measuring devices. Here's a stab, though:
A couple cups of flour, a tiny dash of chipotle, maybe two teaspoons of baking powder, a palmful of salt, a teaspoon or two of cinnamon, and half that of ginger. I also threw in a small can of corn. I'd put in the rest of the pumpkin pie spice collection, but I don't have it. Toss it together, then throw in a stick of margarine, three mashed sweet potatoes, two chopped jalapenos, a quarter of a cup of brown sugar, some vanilla, and enough maple syrup to get stuff wet. Mix, put into a container, and bake at 350 until it comes out clean.
My bread came out a bit more spicy and a bit more sweet than I wanted it to. It was still good, though. And vegan. My desire for less spice and sweetness is reflected in the recipe above.
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