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Five Ways to Eat: Beets

This month we are going to feature one healthy, wholesome food each morning and give you a well-rounded look at finding it, using it, and eating it. This is part of the food half of the Social Workout...

Recipe Riff: Golden Beet and Barley Salad with Rainbow Chard

Now that summer is officially here and the weather is indeed getting hotter, we're putting a lot of cool pasta and grain salads on the menu for lunch and dinner! This recipe is a variation on the Roas...

Look! Candied Carrot Garnishes

One of our favorite ways to garnish cupcakes isn't with extra chocolate or sweets, it's with vegetables! They're cheaper, more cheerful and usually results in a good wow factor from your friends and...

Recipe: Quick Beets with Chile and Lemon

Although we have turned our attention towards more quintessentially summer flavors, we still have beets galore at the farmers' market and are always pleased to discover new ways to eat them. Here's a ...

Times Top 5: Cellphones as Cooking Tools
From the NY Times Dining Section 01.21.09

We're still grocery-list-on-scraps-of-paper people, but more and more cooks are using their cellphones to streamline their shopping, searching recipes in the grocery aisles and checking sustainable se...

Inspiration: The Single Beet Lunch

In last week's email, Sara Kate wrote about eating less as a simple move toward eating light. This is just one single, roasted beet (not even a huge one) and some good goat cheese, but enough for a sa...

Recipe Recommendation: Borscht

When I have a bunch of beets, one of my first thoughts is to make borscht. My borscht recipe is highly improvised and varies depending on my mood and what I have on hand, but it'll get you started. ...

Seasonal Spotlight: Beets

One of my favorite root vegetables are beets. Not only are they beautiful (their colors range from intense claret to bright gold, to candy cane stripes) they also have a wonderful texture and an eart...

Farmers' Market Report: Colorful Roots
Los Angeles

We don't always think of January as a time for brilliantly colored produce, but on a recent trip to the farmers' market, we were dazzled by the array of root vegetables like turnips, beets, and rutaba...

Recipe: Beet Salad with Horseradish Cream and Frizzled Sweet Onions

Do we really need another beet salad? We really don't need much, but would you love another beet salad? My guess is yes. There's certainly room on our server, so why not? Last week, Maxwell and I a...

Tip: How To Roast and Peel Beets

A roasted beet is a great base for a salad especially this time of year when, for most of us in the northern hemisphere, there are few choices other than cellared root vegetables. It's a great skill t...

Recipe: Sautéed Rainbow Chard with Raw Beets and Goat Cheese

We showed up at the tail end of our CSA distribution this week and got a little more than we bargained for: Namely, a generous, extra helping (or four) of some vegetables. In trying to use a lot of th...

San Francisco Farmer's Market Report: Ferry Plaza

We went to the Ferry Plaza Farmer's Market on Saturday and summer is in full swing here in San Francisco. Berries, stone fruits, and tomatoes have arrived!...

Garden Cooking: Thomas Keller's Beet Ice Cream

We're excited about the little beets we're growing in our container garden; you can see the knobbly seeds here and the new fuschia seedlings here. Now here's one more thing we'd like to make with th...

Look! The Beets Have Sprouted!

We grabbed a packet of beet seeds on impulse; they weren't included in our modest plans for a container garden this year. Now that they've sprouted we're already delighted with their incredibly vibran...

Garden Spotlight: An Array of Seeds

We showed you our tiny seedlings this morning, but now we want to back up for a moment and show you the seeds we planted. We were fascinated by the range of sizes and shapes in the seeds we planted......

Recipe: Borscht

We might lose our foodie card for telling you this, but we don't really like beets very much. There's something about their earthy flavor that's a bit off-putting. BUT, we love borscht.That earthine...

Seasonal Inspiration: Raw Beet Salads

We've whined enough about wanting spring to get here already. So, in the interest of turning the page, here is a fresh, happy take on beets that might tide you over until the farmers' markets get colo...

San Francisco Chronicle Food Section Roundup

This week in the San Francisco Chronicle: recipes for absinthe cocktails, ways to win over beet haters, fish tacos, and pecorino senese cheese....

Look! Golden Beets and Brussels Sprouts

This splendid dish of Golden Beets and Brussels Sprouts is from Chris and Lisa at We Heart Food. The recipe is from Elise at Simply Recipes, and it sounds like Chris was converted into a Brussels sp...

Recipe: Velvety Beet and Cocoa Cake

We want a good red beet cake. We have friends who love the classic Southern Red Velvet, but we object to the entire bottles of red food coloring that go into most recipes. Beets add such a sweet, mo...

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