Pickled Beet Sandwich – Cleaning the Larder

It was a busy weekend and we were looking for a quick bite.

This is a time of year I try to use up as much of our surplus canned goods as possible (and there are a lot!) in order to prepare for the bounty of summer and to rotate the contents of our preserve shelf.  We know that the market will soon be swelling with an abundance of fresh fruit and vegetables and we’ll be less inclined to eat our preserves so this is a guilt-free time to open as many jars as possible.

Late spring/ early summer is a busy time around our house.  I tend to travel a lot for work, we’re a lot more social (like bears coming out of hibernation), farmers market season kicks into another gear and projects in the garden tend to take a lot of time.  Meals like this one are ready in minutes (the longest step was making toast)and can easily fuel you through the day.

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7-Minute Meal: Root Salad Recipe

Need a meal or a hardy side-dish in minutes?   Cooking isn’t a race but it’s handy to have a few quick recipes in your toolkit that you can make when you’re in a rush.  This root salad recipe is an easy winter snack that can use most root vegetables (I stay away from potatoes or yams as they take longer to cook) as the base and you can add just about anything from your fridge.

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Light Hummus Recipe (Made Purple with Beet Powder)

I love hummus.  The delightfully garlicky, olive-oil rich spread that brings me to happy town.

Today’s recipe still brings me to happy town – it just takes a very different route:

Light Hummus Recipe (Made Purple with Beet Powder) Chickpreas Beet

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Beets – Pickles and Powdered

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Beets are a lot of fun.  I`ve had a funny relationship with them since childhood.  I forget to put them on my plate (or outright avoid them) thinking that I`m not a giant fan of them.  When I have a weak moment and plate some up I rediscover that I love them.  This can happen several times per week. [Read more...]

Can`t beat this – a secret to beet salad

I will gladly admit that I adore making mistakes.  I don`t embarass easily and I thoroughly enjoy sharing my discoveries of personal futility because they make me laugh, they may help someone else and I find it oddly fun to admit what a dork I can be.  I am pleased to say I plan on admitting my own discovery of personal flubbing and I may actually be the only one reading this who has learned a thing from it.

I m 37.  I`ve never eaten beats in the summer that I remember (with the exception of pickled beets).  The reason was simple – it`s too hot to cook tem and hot beets are so clearly a dish for the fall and winter.

I also adored how chefs got beets to stay so firm, crisp and crunchy in a salad.  I was never able to reproduce their results.  I was sharing the second anecdote with a farmer friend when she looked at me like I had 7.5 heads.

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What to do with dehydrated beets and celery root

Yesterday showed part one of this exercise – we dehydrated 5 pounds of beets into chips and did the same with an entire celery root.  A lot of people asked us what we were going to do with them.

Let`s begin at the end.  Our 5 pounds of beets now look like this:

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Dehydrating beets, onions and celery root

There`s not much I can add to the title other than the photos so let`s start there:

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