Storage and Recipes
Published on Sunday, June 15th, 2008
Each vegetable link will take you to a page for that vegetable with suggested storage tips and recipes. Please add recipes you’ve tried to the comments for that page and I will add pages for it when I get time.
Vegetables
Herbs
General storage tips for herbs are like that of lettuce and any other leafy green. They should be kept in something that will keep them from drying out (a plastic bag works, or sometimes your veggie drawer in the fridge is ok) and they should be kept in the fridge. The exception is when you intend to dry the herb, for example oregano which is actually nicer to use dried.
Martin Says:
July 7th, 2008 at 2:08 amVisit Martin
What about fresh beets - other than grating them on salad - can you cut them up and eat them raw?
Martin Says:
July 7th, 2008 at 2:42 pmVisit Martin
This also sounds promising.
http://www.foodandwine.com/recipes/roasted-chioggia-beets-with-feta/print
Chris DeVries Says:
July 8th, 2008 at 12:39 pmVisit Chris DeVries
Hmmm… I don’t think we’ve ever tried fresh beets ourselves. Our favourite way to have them is roasted. The roasting tends to caramelize them a bit and the flavour is great. Boiling is ok, but roasting is better I think. Since it’s been so hot these last few days we are likely going to boil ours and make a cold beet salad. I think we usually put some type of vinegar, olive oil, mustard seeds, salt, pepper, garlic (scapes?), green onion and toss with sliced, boiled beets. It’s pretty good that way too.
Don Says:
July 10th, 2008 at 4:58 pmVisit Don
How long for boiling - I’m assuming the same as you would to make potato salad.
Don Says:
July 14th, 2008 at 8:25 pmVisit Don
Roasted the beets from the week before yesterday on the BBQ - I really like them. Cubed them and put them in tin foil with a bit of olive oil.