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It finally feels like fall: our local farmers market is full of our favorite Honeycrisp apples.
For a dynamic duo of flavor and crunch, pair crunchy apples with crunchy celery root, also known as celeriac (and céleri in French).
Celery root, a relative of celery, is a root vegetable. Leafy stalks somewhat like celery grow above the ground, but the part that is eaten grows beneath, looking like a large, bulbous, misshapen turnip. (Use the stalks, which are hollow, as straws in Bloody Marys; they’ll add a bit of celery flavor.)
Like celery, celery root is very low in starch.
Enjoy it raw in green salads and fruit salads, cut into matchsticks.
Celery root can also be roasted, alone or in a melange of root vegetables. They can also be boiled and mashed—a delightful alternative to mashed potatoes.
Added it to soups and stews, or make hot or chilled celery root soup.
Make one of our favorite appetizers, Céleri Rémoulade (here’s a recipe).
In this week’s cooking video, Amy Topel of The Green Guide combines apples and celery root in a salad with turkey and a Dijon-yogurt dressing. Use this as an opportunity to try a new vegetable.
There’s a delicious brownie underneath the
ghosts and pumpkins. Photo
courtesy Browniepops.
Want to do something special this Halloween? Serve these memorable and delicious Browniepops: ghosts, goblins and other “seasonal buddies.”
This week, Browniepops—a NIBBLE Top Pick of the Week (read the review)—is giving three lucky readers six of their Halloween brownies-on-a-stick.
The concept behind Browniepops is, like many big ideas, quite simple: Take a scoop of brownie, coat it in hard chocolate and add festive decoration.
Then put it on a stick—because food on a stick is always that much more special—and you’ve created something that will have children and adults out-maneuvering each other to get to them.
We won’t blame you if you refuse to share!
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For more information about Browniepops, visit Browniepops.com.
Savvy party-givers always provide some low-calorie snacks. A platter or basket of crudités (croo-dih-TAY, French for raw vegetables) attracts dieters, vegetarians, the generally health-conscious and those who are reminded that they should be eating more veggies.
While there’s nothing wrong with the standard repertoire of baby carrots, cherry tomatoes, celery sticks and broccoli florets, you can dazzle by trading up to specialty produce:
EAT THE RAINBOW
Look in farmers markets and specialty produce stores for maroon and yellow carrots; green, purple and yellow cauliflower; baby broccoli (a cross between broccoli and Chinese broccoli); baby heirloom tomatoes (the size of grape tomatoes in colors from yellow to purple); yellow and white beets; watermelon radishes; radicchio di Treviso (which looks like red romaine); baby summer squash; and oyster mushrooms.
And look in your supermarket for Red Celery, a brand-new, all-natural variety of celery developed from heirloom seeds by Duda Farm Fresh Foods, the world’s largest grower of celery. It’s available year-round. Learn more at DudaFresh.com.
Available in supermarkets from coast to coast. Photo courtesy DudaFresh.com.
Lightly-sweetened jams make delicious
cheese garnishes. Photo courtesy
Artisanal Cheese.
What do your foodie friends want for Halloween?
Portuguese pumpkin jam is a delicate, autumn-spiced cheese condiment. It’s a colorful addition to any cheese platter and pairs especially well with aged sheep’s milk cheeses.
Artisanal Cheese sells an artisanally-produced pumpkin jam, made in small batches using a generations-old family recipe. The jars are $9.00 each at ArtisanalCheese.com.
You’ve just purchased or baked a delicious artisan bread, but have only eaten part of it. How do you preserve the rest?
One option is to wrap it and stick it in the freezer. But bread easily picks up freezer odors; and even half a loaf takes up a decent amount of room.
To the rescue: Bread Armor artisan bread bags that are reusable and recyclable. These FDA approved, high-performance storage bags keep your artisan loaves fresh longer. They’re sized to fit baguettes and other French breads, ciabatta, rustic loaves and more.
In addition to preserving leftover bread for a week or more, it also keeps your fresh bread from drying between the time you purchase it in the morning or afternoon, until dinnertime.
Bread Armor keeps bread fresh for a week
or more. Photo courtesy Bread Armor.
The company claims that Bread Armor keeps a loaf fresh for more than two weeks. We tried it for one week. At the end of seven days, our loaf was still soft and edible. An optional quick zap in the microwave made it just like fresh-baked.
You can order the bags at BreadArmor.com. They’re $2.99 each, with discounts for quantities.
While plastic bread bags may seem an unexciting house gift or stocking stuffer, anyone who receives a set will be grateful to you.
