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Turnip Purée
Turnips are one of my favorite vegetables, and this purée recipe is such a great way to showcase them. It’s easy and fast to make a warm and earthy side dish.
Buttered Cabbage
Every time I make this recipe I wonder how many people all over the world are fixing the same thing: a vegetable, cabbage, cooked and buttered and salted.
Spring Morels
This is a simple, straightforward method for preparing morels which maximizes enjoyment of their flavor.
Dirt Candy
I've tried this Dirt Candy recipe with both raw & white sugar. Conventional white works best. I've also extended the trick to beets & carrots, which work well.
Beets with Horseradish or Polish "?wik?a".
This is a Polish recipe of Beets And Horseradish, a spicy condiment that goes well with ham or kielbasa. So easy to make! Keep refrigerated up to 2 weeks.
Perfumed Adzuki Beans and Rice with Bourbon and Bacon
We enjoyed this adzuki beans and bacon dish recipe right out of the pan for a warming lunch during a cold snap. This is easy to prepare and full of flavor.
Homemade Mascarpone
Every time I make this, I'm surprised at how much better it tastes than store bought domestic mascarpone. When sourcing your heavy cream for this recipe, do try to stay away from ultra pasteurized cream. I have found that it inhibits the thickening. Adapted from my Lemon Posset recipe.
Simple Roasted Carrots
Some things are best left alone, or very close to left alone. I see carrots as one of those things. My mom taught me how to roast root vegetables long ago and there really isn't one thing to improve upon. These carrots are delicious, sweet, and so simple to prepare.
Carrot Puree
I made the carrot puree as a side dish for grilled flat iron steak.
Carrot Mash
This easy side dish is simply delicious! The maple syrup and vanilla soymilk really highlight the natural sweetness of the carrots. If you do not want to use the soymilk, substitute regular milk.
Spicy Cumin Roasted Carrots
A simple side dish that goes wonderfully with braises. You can also puree it after roasting...it makes a great mash or dip.
Cilantro Pesto
Learn how to make fresh cilantro pesto using cilantro, lemon juice, pine nuts, olive oil, and Parmesan cheese. Make it in a food processor.
Cardamom Sugar
I love making flavored sugars and Cardamom Sugar is one of my favorite recipes. I use it in everything from sweetening my coffee to stirring into pancake mixes.
Fresh Fava Beans with Pancetta and Mint
I think the basis of this probably comes from Marcella Hazan, but I make it so often I don't really remember where the original basis was. I can get young, de-podded fava, so for me, this is quick and easy. However, it's so delicious that I'd be worth shucking all those beans if I couldn't. If you get fava that are young enough (the crease where they attach to the pod hasn't gone brown is usually my rule of thumb) there's no need for the tedious shell removal. The recipe is infinately scaleable. I usually use 3-400 grams (10-15 oz) of de-podded beans, which would equal about 2.5 - 4lbs of favas in the pods.
Pink Peppercorn Dressing
My time as a cook inspired this Pink Peppercorn Salad Dressing recipe - we used creme fraiche in our salad dressing, though my version is decidedly simpler.
Sicilian Blood Orange Marmalade
This is a recipe that I adapted from one found in a Sicilian cookbook. This blood orange marmalade is delectable!
Sauteéd Kale
I love kale. My boys love kale. Even my husband goes for it. Kale is a universally favorite vegetable in our family. And boy am I lucky since it's a superfood. Given our collective kale obsession, I am always looking for more ways to cook kale, and this is one of my favorites. http://www.elanaspantry.com/sauteed-kale/
Marinated & Grilled Spring Artichokes
This recipe yields the best Marinated and Grilled Spring Artichokes! Dipping sauce like aioli or oil and lemon are not needed whatsoever. Easy and delicious.
Megadarra (Lentils and Rice with Caramilized Onions)
This megadarra recipe was given to me by my dear friend Soulafa Akel. This dish is of the poor, but is wonderful... it is best served at room temperature.
Sweet Potater Bakes
Along the lines of Sweet Potato fries, I bring to you Sweet Potato Bakes. A healthier and -in my opinion- tastier branch-off of these awesome spudniks. Seasoning the taters with Garam Masala (which can easily be found at Whole Foods and the like) adds a touch of Indian deliciousness to these bad boys.
Turnips a la Res
This is based on a potato au gratin served by Bill and Moreton Neal when they cooked at La Residence (known locally as La Res.) The potatoes are luscious, but I think the turnip baked in cream is from some other reality. And low carb to boot.
Root Gratin
This side has appeared on our Thanksgiving table for almost 35 years, and is a favorite of adults and kids alike. Linda Olney's recipe, included in the Time Life Good Cook series, is the inspiration for this dish that I have tweaked to be more appealing to the crowd that professes a dislike of turnips. Salting the vegetables prior to assembling the recipe leeches the bitterness out of the roots, and the substitution of Ritz cracker crumbs to top the gratin adds a delicate sweetness. - Bevi
Cindy's Mom's Sweet Potatoes (or Yams)
My friend Cindy gave me this recipe for her mom's yams/sweet potatoes. They're the bomb! I love sweet potatoes on their own but dolled up like this? Irresistible. Giving the yams/sweet potatoes a long, slow simmer in the salted butter-brown sugar-maple syrup concoction changes everything -- they're tender, buttery-smooth and surprisingly, not too sweet. Try to find tubers that are relatively straight to make the initial quartering easier.
Roasted Cumin Carrots
I love carrots and cumin - this is easy enough to toss together quickly, which is a relief at Thanksgiving when there's a lot going on.