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Entries Tagged as 'beets'

Kids Make Borscht

April 9th, 2012 · 2 Comments · kids, Recipes

Could borscht be the best soup ever? My earliest memories are of a restaurant version somewhere: treacly sweet and garishly red. No thank you. The soup we made in our food appreciation classes last week, in contrast, groaned with all sorts of vegetables and a depth of flavor that only hinted at beets. I’m convinced […]

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What’s for Breakfast

October 25th, 2010 · 1 Comment · breakfast

Fried eggs over seared beef liver, sauteed beet greens on the side. My wife and daughter hate it when I fry beef liver. They don’t even want to be in the kitchen. They say it’s because of the smell. Liver does have a singular aroma, and a unique flavore as well. I love it, especially […]

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Garden Cleanup Beet Salad

September 13th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Blog, dinner, garden

We planted amaranth in the kitchen garden for show again this year. Their big, red tassles of grains make a big display. But we ready needn’t have spread new seed. There was plenty already in the ground from last year, as it turned out. We had so many volunteers that you could hardly see where we’d planted the […]

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