Washing baby beets!
Chopping red cippolini onions from the farm. They are so small they look like little leeks inside.
The finished project! Barley Risotto with Roasted Beets and Pinenuts. And its vegan, too.
Saturday, December 27
foods.
The good thing about working a farmers market is the insane amount of free food i get every week. Right now the farm i work for is growing amazing fall and winter foods- we have beets, winter carrots, turnips, radishes, chard, kales, mustard, fennel...etc! Last week I took home three bunches of baby beets and decided to make a kind of risotto. I was inspired by my friend Jessie Mae of Vegan Soldier who made a vegan beet-risotto dish. I have been trying to eat a variety of grains and came across a recipe for barley risotto. You know, creamy long cooking grains with lots of veggie broth and onions and garlic. yum. Anyways, i combined the two recipes, stealing Jessie Mae's beets and the barley risotto recipe from Super Natural Cooking. It was delicious. I had (free!!) pine nuts on hand so i toasted them and added to the whole deal. It was bomb. I took a few photos. Come over for dinner sometime. I will make this again. It's too good, and the barley really stands up against your typical arborio rice for the risotto...its slightly nutty and has a great texture. Okay, enough pretending to be a pro chef. Go make yourselves dinner.
Washing baby beets!
Chopping red cippolini onions from the farm. They are so small they look like little leeks inside.
The finished project! Barley Risotto with Roasted Beets and Pinenuts. And its vegan, too.
Washing baby beets!
Chopping red cippolini onions from the farm. They are so small they look like little leeks inside.
The finished project! Barley Risotto with Roasted Beets and Pinenuts. And its vegan, too.
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6 comments:
mmmmmm looks so good tiff!
have you ever thought of culinary school? you do such amazing things with food.
i think this is great and amazing.
miles- i wish you were here for dinner.SOOOOOOOOOO much leftovers!
miriam- i dont think i could be a culinary student, haha. i wouldnt want to touch meat, at all, and its kindof hard to feel confident in what you cook if you cant taste it! but you are a sweetheart, and i do think about doing something with food, i love food. its so good. i love you more though.
jessie mae- thanks for the hit up on the blog! we should make a cookbook togehter...i dont know if the world needs another cookbook...but we seem to like to cook the same things...think about it?
i think we absolutely should make a cookbook together. and the world could stand to have some more ideas bouncing about. if anything, we could collaborate and do some zine work together with recipes and rants. could be fun and crafty. i will start logging all my own recipes that take the cake and keep em hidden for this very idea. oh ya.
ahhh! what am i doing with my life that is more important that being in your kitchen and cooking and eating good food with you?! ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. haha!
this looks soooo delicious, tiff. you MUST guest blog for me! you must!
love you!
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