Category: Recipies

Roasted Sunchokes

Roasted Sunchokes

This recipe, found on allrecipes.com is an easy way to cook these vegetables.  Sunchokes (aka Jerusalem artichokes) are starchy tubers like potatoes and turnips. When roasted, the skin becomes flaky and the flesh becomes tender, but the taste of a sunchoke is slightly nutty and sweet. (more…)

Root Vegetable Gratin

Root Vegetable Gratin

This recipe, from Bon Appétit Magazine is a perfect way to use your fall root vegetables (feel free to substitute), and would make a great Thanksgiving dish.  Serves 8.

The key to gratins is having all the ingredients—whether they’re basic potatoes or the mixed root vegetables below—sliced the same thickness so they cook at the same rate. Make friends with a mandoline: It quickly yields precise, even slices. (more…)

Maple Roasted Honeynut Squash

Maple Roasted Honeynut Squash

A tinier version of butternut squash, honeynut is slightly sweeter and has a thinner edible skin.  Here’s a recipe for roast honeynut squash, found on Olivia Adriance’s food blog. You can serve alongside a roasted protein for a simple but totally satisfying weeknight meal. Or give it a try for Thanksgiving and see what your family and friends have to say about this mini gourd.  Serves 6 as sides. (more…)