Have you ever bought the ingredients for a dish and then couldn't find the recipe? I remember making and eating a tasty raw carrot and beet salad. The beets looked good when I went grocery shopping so I bought several, some for soup and some for the salad.
Today, I searched through my cookbooks and could not find the recipe! I think it had vinegar, but I can't remember.
What's a girl to do? In my case, I adapted my usual carrot and raisen salad recipe forgoing the raisens and using sour orange instead of lemon. Yeah, I use sugar, you can use less but honey doesn't taste the same, and I don't use artificial sweeteners. I think you can use a mix of lemon and sweet orange juice if you don't have sour oranges laying all over your yard like we do.
2 small beets (betabel)
4 carrots (zanahoria)
3 tablespoons sugar (azuacar standard)
the juice of two sour oranges (naranja agrida)
Peel the beets and carrots.
Shred them (I used the food processor).
Mix the shredded vegetables with the sugar and pour the sour orange juice over them.
Refrigerate.
Serve cold.
Serves 4
ps. if your sour oranges are really juicy you may want to drain the salad before serving it.
I can't tell you how many hours I have spent digging through cookbooks looking for a recipe that I knew I had seen.You have my sympathy. I've signed up with Fine Cooking Magazine so now I can bookmark my favorites into my recipe file. I'm hoping over time that will help with the digging through 5 years of magazines.
ReplyDeleteI just don't like internet recipes like I like cookbooks. Oh, that doesn't stop me from using them. I would just rather read a cookbook, most of them have more than just recipes in them.
ReplyDeleteWhat really bugged me is that I know I made the salad before, I even remember that I used too many beets!
regards,
Theresa