Yet Another Beet Salad {CtBF} #EverydayDorie
I’m a huge fan of beets, especially when they are roasted. On the other hand, I am not a huge fan of quinoa. That means that I had mixed feelings about this week’s recipe for Cook the Book Fridays, from Everyday Dorie.
Dorie Greenspan’s recipe for Ginger Beet Salad Bowls offers a composed salad with greens, quinoa, beet wedges and a honey-ginger dressing. I tried hard, but I just couldn’t get excited. In the end, I opted to dice roasted beets, add some sliced spring onions, and toss them with the dressing in the recipe. The dressing was a lively combination of sweet and sour with ingredients like fresh ginger, honey, and harissa paste. My result was less elegant than a composed salad but gave me a taste of the flavors she envisioned.
I make a variety of beet salads all year long. Surprisingly, Howard liked this one more than I did. While it wasn’t bad, this version is unlikely to take a spot in my repertoire.
(Apparently, I was so ambivalent about this salad that I forgot to take a picture of it. Instead, I offer a glimpse of the flower garden outside my front wall. I used to plant a variety of cosmos seeds each June. Now, they self-seed, and the garden is self-perpetuating. The varieties have crossed so many times that many of my flowers have unique color combinations and petal shapes. When I am out there, passersby often compliment the riotous colors and tell me this garden makes them smile!)
To see what my Cook the Book Fridays friends thought, you can follow their links here. The recipe can be found on page 88 of Dorie Greenspan’s Everyday Dorie.
Posted on 27 July 2020, in Cook The Book Fridays, Everyday Dorie and tagged beets, Cook The Book Fridays, Everyday Dorie. Bookmark the permalink. 5 Comments.
Love those cosmos, Betsy. Like even more the fact that they self-seed. In a way they are wild flowers just being wild as they should be. Your salad “sounded” good even if you forgot the photo. If you only knew how much I forget over a week’s time!
Ok those flowers are seriously happiness in a picture ;) I am so glad that folks admit to you how much they enjoy them – too often people forget to share how much joy they get from others. Too funny about forgetting to take a photo. I am usually terrible about making everyone wait to taste test so that I can first get my photo (seriously uncool of me, I know lol). Pete was thrilled to get any version of beets. I’ll have to get over my aversion to stains and cook them more often;)
Your comment made me laugh Tricia because my family is so trained now they ask if I took the picture before they dive in 😂😂
I love that people told you that your flowers make them happy!!
LOL I have forgotten to take pictures too. I just finished a make-up recipe and forgot the photo. This salad was a surprise for us too. I was not excited but we ending up liking it. I eat quinoa but don”t usually make it at home. Now I have a whole pound of it because the bulk sections where you could just buy a cup are long gone….Oh the days before COVID.