Well, in the spirit of penny pinching and today's earth shattering confirmation of our recession, here's a great way to use up all those leftover sweet potatoes from Thanksgiving's sweet potato pie. I found this fabulous recipe on Nicole's Pinch My Salt, an equally fabulous blog full of mouth watering goods.
These Sweet Potato Buttermilk Rolls are gorgeously colorful, fluffy and (believe me) easy to make. Oh, and they're delicious too. What more could you want from your carbs??
Nutrition, of course. Packed with sweet potato's vitamin A, you've got yourself a healthy carb to feel good about & enjoy with all that turkey haunting your refrigerator.
The rolls keep pretty well, and we have been making turkey sammies daily since Thanksgiving. Since Nicole does such a wonderful job with the recipe and is so kind and talented to provide step by step photos, I'll just send you over to her for my new favorite bread recipe. I almost didn't change a thing, but decided to add a little more sugar than 1/4 cup.
After allowing to rest for a mere hour, the dough easily doubles. Make sure it's ready by poking two fingers and making sure the indentation doesn't go anywhere (tip courtesy of Nicole).
Shape into an a round ball and cut dough into equal portions. Roll into cute balls.
Sprinkle with flour and bake until golden brown!
The rolls keep pretty well but taste amazing when popped into the toaster oven for a few minutes. For anyone still tentative on baking with yeast, I used the sometimes hard to find SAF Perfect Rise yeast. It doesn't require proofing and has never failed me. I can sometimes find it at Trader Joe's though they'll have it one day and the next they won't!
For more tasty bread inspirations, visit Yeastspotting!
Monday, December 1, 2008
Sweet Potato Buttermilk Dinner Rolls
It's not often that toilet paper is discussed on food blogs, but there's just something that's been perplexing me for awhile now. Does anyone else feel like toilet paper is the new gas? Well, OK that sounds funny. But with gas prices falling, I don't feel like crawling into a hole and quietly mumbling nonsense to myself every time I see the dreaded gas light taunt me. Unlike curbing my car for unnecessary trips, there's just no getting around needing to buy toilet paper for the house. Uh, and it's really expensive when you think about what you're getting for your money. People talk about conserving gas all the time but why has no one mentioned conserving toilet paper?
Love how they look so fluffy. You are right about toilet paper. It is so expensive but can you imagine not having any? :)
ReplyDeleteYou know I always buy my TP at Costco, it's $17.99 for 36 rolls I think...so $.50 a roll...unless there are only 24 rolls in the pack so that would be $.75 a roll...is that a lot? I've never thought about it?
ReplyDeleteBut your rolls look fabulous, I love the color!
You know, I haven't noticed the change in TP pricing. I have a brand that I am loyal to so we just buy it sight unseen from Sam's club.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great idea for using up the leftover sweet potatoes. We didn't have any leftover this year though. I made the coconut, macademia nut smashed found at Heidi's site and there was nothing left!
Haha!! So funny about the TP discussion ;-)
ReplyDeleteSWEET POTATOES!!! Love them. Fun idea, putting them in rolls!!
WOW - Great looking rolls. These look amazing
ReplyDeleteYour right about the TP, we buy it in large packs, we have kids so we HAVE to. LOL! I love these rolls! And I love that you made turkey sandwiches with them, I'm bookmarking these for Christmas, I think ham ( my hubby wants ham for Christmas) sandwiches on sweet potato rolls would be very very good!
ReplyDeleteToo funny about the TP, I hadn't notice the price change too much. Your dinner rolls look and sound fabulous
ReplyDeleteOh I want to try these! They look divine! Nice work!
ReplyDeleteOh, those look so good. I have a bunch os sweet potatoes in the house so I'll have to try them
ReplyDeleteI think this is very nice dish! Need to try it!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful! I could live off of fresh bread or rolls and butter. These look terrific - love the color.
ReplyDeleteI always buy my tp at Costco...never noticed the price because it's something I can't live without.
I adore sweet potatoes, but somehow I've never used them to make rolls. The idea sounds SO good though!
ReplyDeletethese look simply fabulous!! and i never thought about toilet paper. next time i'll wipe carefully! lol
ReplyDeleteI HATE how expensive it is! Even when you get the cheap stuff, it's still pricey! I read an article about how grocery prices won't go down even though gas is down b/c the grocers don't want "to upset consumers by raising and lowering prices." How rude!
ReplyDeleteI love the rolls! Yum!
The sad thing about reading your blog is now I am DYING for fresh dinner rolls, ones that look suspiciously like these, and yet there are none to be had. *sigh* :)
ReplyDeleteI will take some of those carbs anyday! Delish rolls!
ReplyDeleteOh and yes..paper product prices seem to be on the rise! Paper towels are crazy expensive!
ReplyDeleteToilet paper is expensive, but it must be bought! These rolls are delicious looking and I bet they are wonderful stuffed with turkey.
ReplyDeletethese look nice. Nice way of using leftovers :)
ReplyDeleteThose look fantastic!!
ReplyDeleteI love sweet potatoes and have never thought of using it in dinner rolls, they look wonderful. They look so light and fluffy.
ReplyDeletewish i had some left overs for this recipe! now if only i could turn sweet potatoes into biscotti...
ReplyDeleteThese rolls look so yummy! I'm a sucker for a really good carb!
ReplyDeleteyum yum...you can make sweet potato filling for your rolls too :)
ReplyDeleteThat's funny,my daughter is taking an economics class and we were just talking the other day about how the demand for toilet paper is more inelastic than the demand for gas. Now I have proof :)
ReplyDeleteThanks for sending these lovely rolls to YeastSpotting!
Ha! I never gave TP a thought since it pretty much is one of those basic needs! I love the rolls and I bet they are even better toasted up.
ReplyDeleteWhat a good idea! Those look perfect!
ReplyDeletewho knew toilet paper could segue into sweet potater rolls? nicely done. :)
ReplyDeleteand since you brought it up, i feel the need to mention my hatred of one-ply toilet paper. why do they even make the stuff? it's useless, disgusting, and completely frustrating. :)
Your rolls are so pretty! They fluffed up so nicely!
ReplyDeletewell now that you've dubbed it a healthy carb, I'm ready! Yeah, that works perfect for me--any excuse to eat a homeamde roll.
ReplyDeleteWow Sharon, those look so soft and perfect. Great post! There is nothing like a soft homemade roll!
ReplyDeleteI am loving some sweet potatoes these days...wow, these rolls look so yummy and soft! I want one now!
ReplyDeleteYou are so funny :) I'm like Cathy and buy my TP at Costco too, but of course there are a lot more than 2 people in our house. You and hubby would have tp for life that way!
ReplyDeleteI am glad we have it though.
Milk has been my big thing lately. Since the cost of groceries going up was blamed on gas prices, why aren't grocery prices going down now that gas prices are?
Anyway, on to the food... these look fantastic! Bookmarked to try,
Wow, everyone! I suppose I should be hitting up Costco or Sam's for the essentials, huh?
ReplyDeleteoh gosh, they look so adorable! and yes, I felt the pinch of the toilet paper price hike! :(
ReplyDeletethey DO look very fluffy! Would have love to bite into it!
ReplyDeleteThese sound great, and they're such a pretty color.
ReplyDeleteMan, I wish I had seen this recipe last week when I was trying to get rid of all the sweet potato left overs!
ReplyDeleteThese look great, nice and fluffy!
ReplyDeleteHow resourceful! Love this idea. I unfortunately have zero sweet potatoes on hand. but i do have buttermilk. funny enough, I am totally cleaned out of TP, too, as of late last night!
ReplyDeletenot only are the colors fabulous on these but i'm imagining what the taste is like. these are so creative!
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