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Recipe: Pickled Beets and Carrots
Pickled beets and carrots – a bit of spice for your tastebuds. A co-worker gave me some fresh garden beets and carrots and I thought I’d try my hand at pickling them. The Spice Merchant has some very fragrant pickling spices so I thought, let’s do this! Okay, here we go. Ingredients 2 cups of white vinegar 1 tablespoon of pickling spice 3 cups of fresh carrots 3 cups of fresh beets First up, gather all of your ingredients and wash two mason jars. Let’s…
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Recipe: Warm Roasted Beet and Carrot Salad
Warm roasted beet and carrot salad is not only full of fall flavours, but a perfect side dish to turkey. Garden fresh vegetables are the best. My co-worker (who is awesome) shared his harvest with me. Whoo hoo! Let’s start on these wonderful ingredients. Ingredients 5 garden carrots 6 garden beets 1 cup of got feta cheese 4 tablespoons of olive oil 2 tablespoons of thyme First, gather all of your ingredients and set the oven to 400 on roast. Wash and cut the carrots…
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Recipe: Beet and Apple Salad
Beet and apple salad – with feta and homemade balsamic dressing. Delicious. This is the last salad in the seven sensational spring salads, be sure to check out the rest if you haven’t already. Love beets? This beet stacks, too. So good. Ingredients 4-7 beets 3-4 apples 1 cup of crumbled feta a few sprigs of parsley Dressing 50-60 ml of balsamic vinegar 90-100 ml of olive oil 1 teaspoon of Italian seasoning Gather all of your ingredients and set the oven to 425. First,…
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Recipe: Beet Stacks
Beet Stacks – just in time for your Sunday night dinner tomorrow…pair with mashed cauliflower and lamb leg steak and you’ll be all set! Not only are they beautiful to look at, they taste fabulous! Ingredients 3 beets 1/2 cup of goat feta cheese 6 sprigs of thyme 3 tablespoons of omega oil 3 tablespoons of balsamic vinegar 1/2 cup of chopped walnuts (optional) First – you’ll want to buy the beets with leaves…for some reason they sit up better – plus, they have that…
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Recipe: Red Salad
Brighten up your dinner with a red salad! Radicchio lettuce, beets, and radishes – this salad dish is sure to please. Ingredients 3-4 beets 1 radicchio 2 red peppers 10 radishes 1 stalk of green onions your favourite vinaigrette (I used garlic) First – peel the beets and roast them for about 1 hour or until cooked but still a bit firm. Cut into matchstick pieces. Second, wash and cut the radicchio, slice the red peppers, radishes, and green onions. When you’re slicing the radishes,…
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Recipe: Lazy Juice
It’s lazy juice time. I know, juicing is fun, but can sometimes be a lot of work. Cleaning spinach, kale, or seeding a pomegranate (although, one day I’m going to try and put the whole pomegranate it the juicer) can be a hassle. This recipe is lazy – why lazy? …because all you have to do is put the fruit in a bowl, rinse it off, and then cut it up a bit. Lazy Juice Lemon, beet, orange, carrot, kiwi, tomato, apple, and a pear.…
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Yellow and Green Juice
Juice, again! The juicer is so easy to use…and so good for you! We were in the city a few days ago and I stopped by Planet Organic to grab some wheatgrass – our local grocery store doesn’t sell it. Boo! Okay, let’s get started on this yellow and green juice. Ingredients pineapple lemon yellow beets wheat grass broccolini I also picked up some yellow beets (which caused some controversy, coincidently, on Top Chef this past Wednesday – “who stole my yellow beets!!”)…and I grabbed…
