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Cooking: Brussels Sprouts
Raw: Apples!

I make this recipe once, if not twice, a week:

http://vegcooking.com/recipeshow.asp?RequestID=1035&Search=dill+beets

The only changes I make to the recipe are as follows: I roast the beets at 375 for 50 minutes wrapped tightly in foil, let them steam for 20 or so minutes in the foil, and then just peel them with my fingers and slice them. I also use honey instead of sugar.

I might also suggest tripling or quadrupling the batch...I have been known to eat them straight from the fridge. With my fingers.

Agreed! Minnesota honeycrisps are the best part of fall. I could eat them for every meal.

I love pickled anything. Cucumber pickles, pickled ginger, pickled beets, pickled beans, pickled brussels sprouts, giardinera, relish, pickled hot peppers...

However, sweet pickles are gross. Bread and butter pickles? Ew.

I looooove my homemade hot pickled beans right now.

An espresso machine! Oooh I would be in heaven.

Or you could just not eat junk food at all and save your calories for food actually worth consuming.

I'd gladly give up a couple of packs of "Oreo thins" so that I could enjoy a heaping plate of vegetable pasta for dinner.

America could lose so much weight if people started buying food that wasn't vacuum-sealed and mass-marketed. Just buy food, not "food products"

Fruit. Freshly baked bread. French-press coffee. A slice of aged cheese. Vegetables straight from the garden. A handful of almonds, cashews, or pistachios.

And late in the summer, a homegrown tomato, sliced and sprinkled with a bit of olive oil, salt, and pepper.

Quality food needs very little human intervention.

Steel cut oats, cooked in water (yes, the long way) until thick and creamy. Then I drizzle in some honey and a bit of blackstrap molasses, a good pinch of salt, cinnamon, and allspice. Yummmmmm.

Fruit is truly the perfect food. Colorful, portable, nutritious, sweet, and delicious.