Red lettuce salad with sweet potatoes

[highlyeccentric]

I've recently subscribed to a vegetable box delivery service, so now I have to find uses for vegetables I would never normally buy. This results in more salad than I am accustomed to. Today, adapted from a Martha Stewart Recipe.

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Makes... about two small meals? Depends on the size of your lettuce, and indeed your sweet potato. Probably 3-4 side servings.

Honey cake/muffins

[sonia]

This is adapted from a family recipe, "Kuchen de miel," probably originally from my German Jewish grandmother (the "Kuchen" part), written out in Spanish for my father (the "miel" part), and translated into English and made gluten-free by me.

I tried it twice, once as a loaf as originally written and once as muffins (thanks to writedragon for the idea). The muffins turned out better for me. They are sweet. Also moist and delicious and nostalgic for me, but too sweet for my current palate. If someone successfully makes a less sweet version, let me know!

Ingredients
150 g honey (scant 1/2 cup)
125 g sugar (1/2 cup)
1 egg
1/4 cup neutral flavor oil
225 g flour (see Notes)
1/4 tsp baking soda, heaping (see Notes)
1 1/2 tsp cocoa
1/2 cup cold coffee (see Notes)
1/2 lemon, zest and juice
1/2 cup walnuts, chopped, optional
1/2 cup candied fruit, optional, powdered with flour (see Variations)

Oven at 350F.
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