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red deviled-ish eggs

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Please excuse my absence, I’ve been skiing for the past week. The trip was filled with good food, the great outdoors, and most importantly- quality time with family. Snow is pretty great when paired with sky blue sky, and there is some hot chocolate to keep you warm.

While packing the night before the trip, I turned to my refrigerator for dinner. It was quite bare in there, I was faced with a small roast beet, some carrots, and these guys:

"Oh, hi there!"

"Oh, hi there!"

So I did what any normal person would do, I got evil on these guys and made deviled eggs. Oh, and I made them with beets… that’s normal, right? It was quite the treat, it made packing feel like a fancy dinner party. The best part- the color! No doubting these eggs are quite the little devils.

Looking forward to sharing more recipes with you this week; stay tuned for another colorful dish (hint: it’s green, and it’s soup), as well as a real nail biter about breadcrumbs!

Red Deviled-ish Eggs (serves 1)

  • 2 hard boiled eggs, peeled*
  • 1 small roasted beet
  • 2-4Tbsp greek yogurt (I used Fage 2%, it seems creamier and less tangy than other brands to me)
  • 2tsp spicy mustard (optional)
  • salt & pepper
  1. Cut hard boiled eggs in half, lengthwise. Remove yolks and place in a mini-food processor (or a blender).
  2. Roughly chop the beet, add to the food processor with 2Tbsp yogurt, mustard, and a pinch of salt. Blend until a smooth consistency. 
  3. Taste, add additional yogurt if needed to give it a smoother texture. Season with salt and pepper as needed.
  4. Scoop beet mixture back into egg whites. If you’re feeling fancy, add beet mixture to a small plastic bag, cut a small hole in the corner, and pipe the mixture back into the eggs to make it nice and neat. Top with a sprinkle of salt and pepper. Open a beer or a bottle of wine and enjoy your cocktail party for one. Note: This recipe could easily be multiplied for a party with more than just you there; however, be warned that if these sit too long the beets will start to discolor the whites. So it would be best to prepare them just before serving.
*Want a fool proof way to have hard boiled eggs that are easy to peel? Here it is: if you can help it, don’t hard-boil fresh eggs. As eggs sit in the refrigerator, evaporation of the egg whites occurs through the shell of the egg, resulting in more room between the white and the shell. I find hard boiled eggs are a great way to use up eggs that are a week or two away from their “use by,” date. I throw them in a pot, cover them with about an inch of water and bring to a boil. Once the water reaches a boil, cover the pot, turn the flame off (if you have an electric range, remove the pot from the hot burner), and set the timer for 10 minutes. Meanwhile, prepare a bowl of cold ice water. When the timer goes off, drain the eggs and place in the cold bath to cool for a few minutes. Pat dry, then place in the refrigerator for deviled eggs, additions to salads, or a quick protein-rich snack.

savory quinoa and beet pancakes

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I find myself moving again, a short 10 months after my last move, and if I’m lugging these cookbooks and cooking magazine clippings to another location, I better start cooking out of some of them!  I think that “waste not, want not,” applies to more than just food- in my case, it applies to cookbooks as well.  Because of this, I’ve stopped buying them, and check them out from the library first before committing.
These pancakes are a great way to kick-off the blog for several reasons;
1)    I finally am cooking something out of Kim Boyce’s “Good to the Grain.” I have been checking this book in and out of the library repeatedly, never making anything, yet buying flours when I see them in the store.  Today, as the start of the blog, it only seems right to try something new.
2)    I was able to use up some beet puree I had sitting in the freezer, which I’m trying to clear out before this move.
3) They are pancakes, need I say more?  There should always be an excuse to make pancakes!

This pancakes came together easily.  I think they would be a great thing to keep in your head as a use for leftover beets, as roasting beets just for these pancakes seems likes an awful lot of work.  I used the suggested quinoa flour, which was a nice grassy compliment to the earthiness of the beets; however, you could use half whole wheat and half all-purpose to no ill effect.  I followed her suggestion for savory pancakes (if you’d like to make them sweeter, for breakfast use 3 TBSP of dark brown sugar); however, since I don’t like my pancakes sweet to begin with, I would be very happy with these pancakes as they are for breakfast, with maple syrup and greek yogurt.
For today, I enjoyed them with a fried egg and some broccoli.  I’m already plotting to use this recipe for other left-over vegetables, I think my next attempt might be blending leftover spinach or broccoli into a puree and using that instead of the beets.