This is one of my favorite recipes. It is light, flexible, and healthy. It is delicious with fresh broccoli from the farmers market, and equally good with winter broccoli from the grocery store. Best of all, it gets better with time and tastes good warm or cold, so it makes excellent leftovers! Broccoli and Fennel Salad Ingredients (serves … [Read more...]
Swiss Fondue
We're perched in the Swiss Alps looking out over breathtaking peaks. In an effort to fully get into the spirit of Switzerland I decided to give fondue a try. Amazingly I've never had fondue before and I've certainly never made it before. It turned out to be quite easy, very tasty, and super rich. I wouldn't suggest having it as a regular part … [Read more...]
Spring Salads
Spring is a season of salads! Actually, I think there are great salad for all seasons, but spring is one of my favorite times to celebrate bitter greens and fresh garden toppings. There are endless delicious combinations and lots of room for creativity. I've been making salads often during our travels. It's usually easy to find fresh greens and … [Read more...]
Lemon and Garlic Asparagus
Asparagus is a quintessential spring vegetable -- full of green flavor, only around for a short season, and a harbinger of more summer bounty to come. It's one of my favorites and I always try to make an asparagus-focused dish to kick-off the season. Last year it was spring quesadillas and this year it was asparagus with lemon and … [Read more...]
Sauteed Eggplant and Quinoa
We're traveling through Southern Spain at the moment and the cuisine is a fascinating mix of traditional Spanish, North African, and Middle Eastern. I've been seeing lots of eggplants appearing on menus and I couldn't be happier. This eggplant dish was really quite simple, very tasty, and made the whole apartment smell good. I started by … [Read more...]
Turmeric and Ginger Glazed Carrots
Life on the road means making simple meals. I'm limited to locally available ingredients that I can purchase in small quantities. It is definitely a shift in mindset not to have my usual kitchen stocked with all my favorite pantry staples. This is a good exercise for me because I enjoy the hunt to find great flavor with simple … [Read more...]
Recreating the Bistro Salad
I've been eyeing these delicious bistro salads that are served all over Paris. They are the perfect antidote to rich food and have a fitting spring quality to them. After tasting a few different varieties over the past few days I decided to try making my own. It was wonderful! I used red leaf lettuce, mache, and parsley as my base of greens. … [Read more...]
French Lentils with Chanterelles
We moved into our Paris apartment on Tuesday and celebrated by cooking our first french meal. We spent a lovely afternoon walking through the markets on Rue Mouffetard and stocked our kitchen. This meal really felt like "One Beet goes to Paris" -- lots of french ingredients, but definitely my cooking style and focus on healthy, delicious, simple … [Read more...]
Holiday Brussels Sprouts
I made these for friends recently and we all decided they would be perfect as a holiday side dish given the vibrant red and green colors. They also happen to be delicious! I will be recreating them on Christmas Eve for my family and am already looking forward to eating them again. As you may remember from my top five vegetables post, I love … [Read more...]
Vinegary Sausage and Kale
This is one of my all-time favorite recipes! It is easy to make and a crowd pleaser every time. It does involve meat, which most of my cooking doesn't, but in this case a small amount goes a long way in enhancing the flavor profile. I begin by removing the casing on two or three sweet italian sausages and chopping/crumbling them into a … [Read more...]