Sweet Coconut Bread

Gosh I love bread.  Sweet, savory, roll, brown, biscuit – I don’t discriminate.  And thanks to Fiji’s inspiration, I love this sweet coconut bread.

A bit about me:  I’m a planner. I plan my weekly activities well in advance, schedule my meals and allocate every vacation day at the beginning of each fiscal year. The exception to this sometimes oppressive habit has been this blog.

That’s not to say that I don’t plan it at all. I typically come up with my menu the Friday before so that I have a grocery list to go buy ingredients on Saturday morning.  The lack of planning comes from the fact that I’m usually writing these posts the day that I cook the meals.  Once in a while, I’ll have a productive Sunday where I crank them all out in a day, but that seems to have been happening few and far between.

This past Sunday, I got my act together. Because I was traveling for work this week and didn’t want to push Fiji into next, this past Sunday was one busy day. Good thing, too, because when I left my house at 4:15 this morning to catch my 6 AM flight, I was armed with a very tasty breakfast, courtesy of Travel by Stove.

Admittedly it has been hard to find new and interesting recipes to make for these pacific islands, and when I read the rave review given for this coconut bread, I figured that, since I am obsessed with bread, I had to make it. And I’m SO glad I did.

This is really easy, moist and flavorful, which, I admit surprised me since it had no oil or butter in it.  Since I lack self-control, when I originally made this, hot from the oven, I slathered it in Nutella (and therefore redefining fusion cuisine in my household). I had originally wanted to top it with lemon curd, but didn’t have any in the fridge. Because come on:  Lemon + coconut? Nothing wrong with that. Nothing at all.  No Nutella or lemon curd on the plane today, and it tasted wonderful nonetheless.

Ok, on to the recipe.  Adapted from Travel By Stove.