Next up... So congrats to Becky (and also to Gillian and Sue, who picked the same ingredient) who commented: I’ll second (third?) quinoa! I feel like I should be eating it in all of its superfoodness, but my Midwestern meat-and-potatoes genes are afraid of it for some reason. Besides, The Food and Agricultural Organization of … Continue reading The Blue Mixing Bowl of Happiness & Possibility Says…
Category: Food You Don’t Know What To Do With
Beet Risotto with Goat Cheese,Thyme and Lemon Zest
If you're already impatient with how long it takes to cook beets, then I don't know how you'll feel about my suggestion to slow down even more and make risotto out of them. It's really Niki Segnit's suggestion, and one that I admit I put off for most of the week because I couldn't foresee … Continue reading Beet Risotto with Goat Cheese,Thyme and Lemon Zest
Ma Vie en Rose: Beet Hummus & Sauteed Beet Greens
We're a hummus-loving family. I make it myself sometimes (so easy), but also find myself buying a fair bit of it. Recently I found edamame hummus at Wegmans, and snapped it up in a hurry for my daughter who can almost literally eat her weight in soybeans. It's delicious, and that pale spring green is … Continue reading Ma Vie en Rose: Beet Hummus & Sauteed Beet Greens
Warm Beet Soup with Cumin and Sour Cream
I can't think about beets without remembering the Gilligan's Island episode where the radioactive seeds wash into the lagoon, and the resulting vegetables wreak havoc on the castaways. Mrs. Howell eats the sugarbeets and, if I remember correctly, cleans everything on the island in a burst of super-charged energy. Before you run out to the … Continue reading Warm Beet Soup with Cumin and Sour Cream
Salad with Pickled Beets, Candied Walnuts, Granny Smiths and Gorgonzola
Welcome to Beet Week! Not as exciting as Shark Week, but maybe just as messy. So my friend and reader, Charlie, wants to know if beets a) always take SO long to cook, and b) always make THAT much of a mess. It's true. Beets are going to make you work for them. And I'll … Continue reading Salad with Pickled Beets, Candied Walnuts, Granny Smiths and Gorgonzola
The Weekly Ode: Beets
Few things make me happier than food and poetry, so every Monday, I will strive to post something that brings those things together! The Victory of the Beet-Fields *published by the Poetry Foundation By Louis Untermeyer Green miles of leafy peace are spread Over these ranks, unseen and serried; Screening the trenches with their dead And … Continue reading The Weekly Ode: Beets
The Blue Mixing Bowl of Happiness and Possibility Says…
It's that time again! The girl-child got the honors this week... Congratulations, to Charlie, who had this to say: I’d like to ask about beets. I’ve read about things to do with them before, but the few times I’ve given it an honest shot, I’ve found them really hard to deal with. How do you deal … Continue reading The Blue Mixing Bowl of Happiness and Possibility Says…
On the Tasting Menu: Zucchini
In this Friday feature, I offer ten recipes using the week’s featured ingredient from fellow food-lovers in the blogosphere. *Note that I have not tested any of these recipes, but to me, they looked good enough to eat! Summer Squash and Tomato Tian, at Prospect: The Pantry Zucchini Gratin, at quick like a bunny! Fried … Continue reading On the Tasting Menu: Zucchini
Sweet, Sweet Zucchini
The first thing you should know is that I am not, generally, a person who believes in hiding vegetables in other, more "palatable" foods to get children (or husbands) to eat them. I admit I might sing a different tune if I had kids who truly would not eat any green thing, but my kids … Continue reading Sweet, Sweet Zucchini
Embracing the Mush
Remember when we were talking about preserving textural integrity with zucchini and I suggested that sometimes maybe you wouldn't want to do that? And remember when you worried about the cores that remained after those pretty ribbons fell away from the squash, and I said, hush honey, I'll tell you how to deal with that later? … Continue reading Embracing the Mush
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