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Need root veggie ideas please!

post #1 of 7
9/15/09 at 7:17pm
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Beets, turnips, potatoes and carrots specifically. I have them coming out of my ying yang.
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post #2 of 7
9/15/09 at 8:48pm
They will all keep for months if properly stored. Cool, dry, dark. Buried in sand if you can manage it.

Beets I love to pickle - they're great on salads. Or I roast them and make beet salad, or borscht or just eat them plain with butter.

Carrots can also be pickled for longer preservation. Or grate them up and bake them into bread, cake, muffins, etc. for the freezer. They can also be blanched and frozen for later use in soups.

Can't really help you with turnips. And we just had a thread on potatoes last week, you might want to go looking for it.
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post #3 of 7
9/15/09 at 8:49pm
roasted roots are our favorite!
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post #4 of 7
9/16/09 at 1:21pm
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roasted roots are our favorite!
Me too! Drizzled with a little olive oil and sea salt....yum! They sweeten up and are delicious - I wish I was drowning in them, but my root veggies were crappy this year in my garden.
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post #5 of 7
9/16/09 at 1:56pm
This is almost exactly how I make ours, except I love to put a little drizzle of maple syrup and a dash of rosemary on them too! :
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Originally Posted by Lisoula View Post
Me too! Drizzled with a little olive oil and sea salt....yum! They sweeten up and are delicious - I wish I was drowning in them, but my root veggies were crappy this year in my garden.
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post #6 of 7
9/16/09 at 7:35pm
roasted are my favorite, too. eat as they are, or mix into your favorite cooked grain.

roasted root veggies add great body to soups.

you can add boiled beets to hummus, if anyone in your house is as crazy about pink as my dd tastes good, too.

mixed mashed veggies: turnips with potatoes, carrots with turnips, carrots with potatoes...

my dd loves our quick refrigerator pickled beets: boil, add to a quart jar with vinegar (about 1/3 cup) and sugar (just under 1/4 cup) salt and cinnamon stick. i am new at pickles...so not too scientific with my numbers. experiment and have fun.
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post #7 of 7
9/17/09 at 10:19am
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Originally Posted by kangamitroo View Post

my dd loves our quick refrigerator pickled beets: boil, add to a quart jar with vinegar (about 1/3 cup) and sugar (just under 1/4 cup) salt and cinnamon stick. i am new at pickles...so not too scientific with my numbers. experiment and have fun.
I love these too - except we use brown sugar.
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