{"id":720,"date":"2014-11-02T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-02T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transitorythoughts.com\/travel\/2014\/11\/02\/sweet-potato-sauce\/"},"modified":"2022-08-05T16:14:34","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T16:14:34","slug":"sweet-potato-sauce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transitorythoughts.com\/travel\/2014\/11\/02\/sweet-potato-sauce\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweet Potato Sauce"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><i>Thanksgiving sweet potatoes often end up really, really sweet. This sauce is for pouring over plain, roasted sweet potatoes to let everyone choose how much buttery sweetness to add right at the table.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><b>Ingredients<\/b><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>1 stick of butter<\/li><li>1 egg, beaten<\/li><li>\u00bc cup brown sugar<\/li><li>\u00bc cup coconut cream<\/li><li>\u00bc cup banana liquor<\/li><li>1\/8 teaspoon cayenne pepper powder<\/li><li>1\/8 teaspoon espresso powder<\/li><li>1 tablespoon molasses&nbsp;<\/li><li>\u00bd to 1 cup (or more) of chopped, toasted pecans<\/li><li>\u00bd teaspoon Aperol<\/li><li>\u00bd teaspoon Limoncello<\/li><li><i>Optionally also consider adding coconut rum, 1 Tbsp bourbon, orange zest, or 2 T of orange marmalade<\/i><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Melt the butter and brown sugar together in a small saucepan under low heat. After the sugar has dissolved, slowly and carefully whisk in the beaten egg, taking care not to let it curdle. Stir in all the remaining ingredients except for the pecans and set aside to cool off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Serve warm in a gravy pitcher. Sprinkle the chopped pecans on the sweet potatoes and pour on the sauce to taste.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanksgiving sweet potatoes often end up really, really sweet. This sauce is for pouring over plain, roasted sweet potatoes to let everyone choose how much buttery sweetness to add right at the table. Ingredients 1 &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recipes","latest_post","no_image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transitorythoughts.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transitorythoughts.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transitorythoughts.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transitorythoughts.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transitorythoughts.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=720"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.transitorythoughts.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":784,"href":"https:\/\/www.transitorythoughts.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720\/revisions\/784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transitorythoughts.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transitorythoughts.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transitorythoughts.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}