I haven’t been managing our veggie basket very well and we’ve fallen behind on our veggie consumption. There were a lot of things going on last month (Cherry Pie, Sandy Hill craft show and the Ladyfest Holiday Craft Sale). Mostly, we haven’t been eating our potatoes. Call it irony that the girl from PEI (aka the potato province) isn’t eating enough potatoes. With the last craft show complete, I sat down on Sunday to settle the score with these tubers.

First, I tried making a herby potato bread in the bread machine using this recipe as the base (with a few changes).

Well, it looked great.  And smelled great as it baked away.  I regret not putting the full amount of oil in - it was a bit dry.  Overall, it was good as lunch-type bread and maybe even a sandwich bread.  Is it going to win Miss Bread 2007?  Probably not.

Boyfriendly rating: 3/5.  Not bad, not awesome.  Just average.

Herby potato bread recipe 

• 1/2 cup Mashed potato
• 1 large egg
• 4 Tbsp vegetable oil
• 3/4 cup water  (I used leftover potato water from cooking the potatoes)
• 3/4 tsp  Dried thyme, rosemary, Oregano, or basil OR combination  (I used a trifecta of herbs)
• 2 1/2 cup Unbleached white flour
• 1/2  cup Quick-cooking oats
• 1 tsp  Salt
• 1 Tbsp Brown  Sugar
• 1 Tbsp  Active dry yeast  (this seemed like a LOT of yeast… it rose quite high)

I set my bread machine to “light” and 1.5 pound loaf, but considering the size, the 2 pound setting would probably have been better.