23rd
Can’t be beet
Hands down my month ‘o’ December favorite thing has been beets plus sour cream dressings — a synergy that is to me particularly thrilling because it is a way to use sour cream, which in my fridge perpetually threatens to go to waste, and requires constant vigilance. Trick to deliciousness, I’ve found, is smushing the chosen allium (shallot or teensy garlic clove) together with salt before you go about anything else. Also the drop of honey or small pinch of sugar. The beets you roast, then peel and quarter and make dorky Lady Macbeth jokes.
The above: porch-grown greens + pistachios + beets + onions + ginger/garlic/coriander/garam masala/red wine vinegar/sour cream/honey/olive oil
The below: beets + hard-cooked egg + capers + parsley + shallot/sugar/sour cream/white wine vinegar/oil
