Coconut Bread w/ Blood Orange Glaze
Happy Wednesday, ya’ll. I can’t believe it’s already mid-week. How was everyones weekend? It was a pretty lazy one over here, which honestly, I’m too not mad about. The past week had been crazy busy so it was nice to take a step back and chill. Another bonus of that was taking the time to flip through my old pastry binder to spark some ideas on what to bake this week. Yes, I do in fact have an entire binder full of dessert recipes. It’s pretty awesome. Although flipped through hundreds, this coconut bread recipe stuck out to me straight from the beginning. And once I had it in my mind, it was already in the making. Now, I used to make this weekly as a pastry chef and everyone loved it. But I wanted to take it a step further and add something to it. Winter/early spring gets a lot of slack for not be a very “fresh” season for produce, but what a lot of people don’t know is that it’s ‘prime time’ for citrus. Which, of course, led me to these beautiful blood oranges. Blood oranges, in my opinion, are the queens of oranges. Not only are they beautiful in color, but they have great health benefits as well, some of which your typical navel orange doesn’t have. Blood oranges are rich in antioxidants, which lower your risk of chronic health problems like cancer, heart disease, and diabetes. And while both varieties are good options in terms of nutrition, this does give blood oranges a higher up. However, the down side of blood oranges is their short window in which you can find them, and unfortunately it’s coming to an end very soon. Bummer! If you cant find blood oranges in stock or in season at you local grocery store, any orange will work great as well. Heck, you could even swap out oranges for a different citrus. This glaze is very versatile.