Sunday Morning Ketchup

Time to catch up on my food news, and Sunday morning is always an excellent time to do that.

Restrictions? Call it possibilities instead! Via Too Many Chefs, this article on how dietary restrictions  (particularly within the Jain community and the Jewish kosher tradition) being the inspiration for delicious recipes is worth a read, particularly if you've wondered what it is exactly that Jains eat. And as Barrett wrote at TMC, becoming vegetarian and especially vegan has forced me, in a good way, to become much more innovative in the kitchen.

Beets have more than one use, it appears. And according to many people, pouring them on the roads would be a fine use for beets. (Beets—beetroot, rather—are (is) much more common, and presumably, appreciated, on European plates than on American plates.) If you'd like to put beets to a more culinary use, try Beet Salad with Horseradish and Fried Capers.

From the NY Times, the deep-fried truth about food miles.

I saw this interesting site linked at Roxanne's (I think): Foodpairing. I never knew durian and asparagus were made for each other.

I have decided to train the dog to sniff truffles. Who knows, we could find a fortune: Giant truffle sets record price.

The Guardian gives us, finally, a vegetarian Christmas (vegan too!). And for dessert, try this Chocolate Orange Cake.

And finally, in Sunday ketchup news: Organic ketchup is better for you, containing three times more lycopene. (I'm also told that adding avocado to your salsa helps you absorb 400 percent more lycopene.)

Comments

[bazu]

You had me at "Beet Salad with Horseradish and Fried Capers"... oh my gosh, that sounds good.

[bazu]

You had me at "Beet Salad with Horseradish and Fried Capers"... oh my gosh, that sounds good.