Capitol Hill Blue Forums Misc. Topics Food, Drink and Cooking What are you making/having for dinner tonight?

So as long as we're talking about roasting beets, why not a Medley of Roasted Root Vegetables?
Carrots, Parsnips, Baby Turnips, Rutabaga, Beets, Sweet Potatoes, Onions, Celeriac, Kohlrabi, Potatoes are Tubers not Roots but you can use them if you want, little fingerling potatoes look good on the platter. Any combination cut into any shapes you like. Coat them with Olive Oil(or Duck Fat) and the Herbs of your choice, a little Sea Salt and fresh ground Black Pepper to taste. Roast them in a 400 degree oven for half an hour or so until they are tender and browning a little on the top.
Serve them right from the roasting pan or use them to garnish a roasted joint of meat or fowl.

Well it's a fact I had a conflicted relationship with him but no that's not why I didn't like it.
But no I don't like it.

If you left off the beets, I could really go for that dish, Greger.

That reminds me of another Russian dish my relatives and sometimes my dad would make which I just loved.
It's called lazy day Russian meal in my Mennonite cookbook.
You put chicken pieces in the bottom of a roaster and bake them part way. Then put white potatoes, sweet potatoes and sliced apples in around it and pour a mixed up yellow cake batter over all of it and cook until everything is done.
The mix of sweet and meat really was odd but wonderful.
A real comfort food to me.

Olyve, that sounds oddly good...

You can add or leave off anything. Usually as long as there are three varieties of root veggies and some chunks of onion the dish is marvelous.

Being on dialysis, I cannot have beets, turnips or rutabagas. Which is sad for me, because I love root veggies, too. I just don't like anything sweet-pickled.

For Easter dinner, I am making a honey-baked ham, roasted potatoes, green beans with shallots and bacon, corn cobbettes, tomato, cucumber and onion salad, sour dough rolls and a Jello cake with whipped cream and decorated with Jelly Belly beans.

I am having 20 people for church and dinner!

I still remember the anguish and longing that my uncle suffered because he couldn't have his borscht (doctors orders- possible the soup concentrates the sugar in sugar beets). I just flipped the chicken leg quarters(49 cents/lb), covered with copious amounts of Butt Rub, and potatoes on the BBQ. I'll serve along with collards and yellow squash. Also have some cold Bud and a very excellent vino. I have a green onion sour cream topping (or butter or plain)for the taters. All in all not a bad peasant dinner served outside amidst the blooming azaleas, wisteria, cherry, and sunny blue sky with the temp approaching 80.

I'll be right over, Joe.

It needs a dash of vinegar! - altough I've seen some recipies that demands half a bottle of good quality balsamic vinegar which caremalises.

Never tried that much but the recipie did state to be brave with it!

World's healthiest vegetable?

Raw broccoli.

Why?

Not only it is loaded with vitamins A, C, and K, but rich in manganese and calcium.

...but the best part? 1/2 cup of raw broccoli is 50 kcals. To digest that 1/2 cup takes about 150 kcal.

A negative calorie food is "negative calories" because certain foods, mostly plants, are difficult to digest because of their cellular composition, i.e., cellulose.

Your body requires on average 150-250 calories to digest your food, depending on your weight, gender and activity level. If you eat a negative calorie food that has a caloric content of 100 calories, you will actually burn more calories than you ingest. Because negative calorie food is harder to digest, your body will require more than the average 150-250 calories to digest the food.


Also for the beet lovers out there, beets are a negative calorie food as are apples, celery, blueberries, beets, asparagus, green cabbage, spinach, oranges, strawberries, grapefruit and garlic.

By no means is this the end of the list. Just naming a few.