Shred enough kale to make two cups. Blanche the kale in boiling salted water for 2-3 minutes. Refresh in ice water and dry. Peel and slice an apple. Slice two or three cooked beets.
Make vinaigrette:
2 TBS orange juice and/or Balsamic vinegar; or lemon and Balsamic
1 TBS olive oil
Salt and pepper
Toss the kale, apple and beet with the vinaigrette.
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Beet‐Apple Muffins
I just found this recipe and it sounds tasty, so I figured
I’d pass it on. From nibbledish.com.
Ingredients
- 1 egg
- 1/8 cup pumpkin
- 1/8 cup canola oil
- ½ tsp vanilla
- ¼ tsp lemon juice
- 1 tsp mollasses
- 1 tsp white wine vinegar
- ½ cup sugar
- ½ cup beets, shredded
- 1 cup apples, chopped
- ¼ cup wheat pastry flour
- 1/3 cup oats
- ¼ tsp baking soda
- 1/8 tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp cinnamon
- ¼ tsp nutmeg
- Pinch of salt
Method:
1) Preheat oven at 350
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“Beetnik” muffins
The Root Café in Lakewood has a wonderful beet and
blueberry muffin. I believe it is vegan too…but I can’t
figure out how to recreate that.
So I found a few recipes online that seem to yield similar
results. This one is for an eggless beet muffin.
Ingredients:
- 1 cup shredded, roasted beets (roast until
tender, not completely mushy)
- 1 cup flour, whole wheat or spelt flower if
you have it
- ½ cup all purpose flour (in addition to whole
wheat or just put 1.5 cups total)
- ½ cup +
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Beet Soup
There are countless variations of beet soup recipes
online. Do a quick search for beet soup and you’ll see.
One of my most memorable beet soup recipes was a
chilled beet and canteloupe soup I had at Lucky’s Café
back in July.
A basic beet soup is similar to the squash bisque in last
delivery’s newsletter. First, start by roasting the beets.
Use approximately a pound of beets, which should be
about 3 medium‐large beets. Wrap the beets in foil and
roast until tender. Once tender, the skins should slip off
rather easily. You may
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A few uses for beets.
Over the summer season, one of the most common
remarks I would get from customers would be how
much they enjoyed the beets. They had grown up on
canned beets and it was always that food that you were
afraid to eat.
Beets are an exceptional vegetable. Not only are they
very healthy, but they are versatile. They also last a long
time. If you remove the tops, they will last two or three
months in the refrigerator.
When you cut off to