Happy Friday, friends. If you have celebrated Rosh Hashanah, I hope it was a festive and joyous occasion. My own holiday dinner is actually taking place tonight, so I will have to report later about how it all went - keep your fingers crossed for me! In the meantime, I wanted to launch a couple of new weekly features on the blog: a round-up of some of the best links The Internet has to offer, alongside a recipe that will take you less than 30 minutes to assemble - because Friday should be full of whatever makes you happy, and not elaborate meal-making. This means that from now on, this little place will be updated three times a week, instead of two. Ah, the joys of unemployment. A little bit about this roasted beet, apple and goat cheese salad, though... First off, I have to admit it's a bit of a cheat, in the sense that it will take about 10 minutes to assemble... But only if you have already diligently roasted and frozen those beets like I instructed you to last week! Once you have roasted beets in your freezer , you're never too far from a delicious, simple salad, or a jar of pickled beets!. This one is creamy from the goat cheese, sweet from the beets and apples, nutritious from the walnuts, and bright with citrus. It made G, who was sick and had no appetite, do a double take and finish a whole bowl, exclaiming, "this salad is amazing!". If that's not a raving endorsement, I don't know what is. So pour yourself a nice, big glass of grape "juice", throw together this salad, and sit back to browse some internet links. Meanwhile, I'm going to put together a festive dinner for seven - no big deal.
Looking for Rosh Hashana Recipes and Inspiration?
Here are a few of my favourites:
- The best vegetarian Rosh Hashanah recipes
- Rosh Hashana menu, and my thoughts for the Jewish New Year
- How to decorate an intimate holiday table for a memorable experience
- Any of the 11 recipes in my Middle Eastern Small Plates E-book
- Almond apple cake with apple roses
- Enchanted rice with grapes, feta and pistachios, or the taste of teenage love
- Black eyed peas masabacha with tahini, tomatoes, garlic and hot peppers
- Roasted beet, apple and goat cheese salad with walnuts
- Turning encounters with strangers into a beautiful meditation on human connections.
- While The Internet is going crazy over pumpkin spice lattes, I'll be making my own pumpkin spice syrup, thank you very much.
- Reading and .
- Just finished obsessively watching this. Any other dance show recommendations?
- Cooking from . I have to say, I think I prefer - the recipes were less involved and, forgive my blasphemy, less contrived at times.
- Hemp seeds on pizza? Why not!
- Inspired by The Denizen Co.
- So, this blogger surveyed some friends and found that fridge pickles are actually superior to hot water bath canning. Who'da thunk?
- Are we over-glorifying the home-cooked meal?
- Ways to make your office lunch a bit more inspiring. Would you ever cook an egg in an office kettle?
Have a lovely weekend!
Recipe
Roasted beet, apple and goat cheese salad with walnuts
Ingredients
Instructions
- Slice lettuce into strands. Core apples and cut beets in half, and then slice them into thin crescents. Slice onion into thin slices. Chop walnuts into pieces.
- Heat a pan to low-medium heat. Add walnut pieces to pan and toast for about five minutes, 2.5 minutes on each side. Remove from pan.
- Arrange lettuce on a large serving platter. Arrange beets, apple slices and onion slices on top. Tearing goat cheese into small chunks, and sprinkle evenly on the veggies. Sprinkle toasted walnuts on top.
- Drizzle olive oil and lemon juice on top. Sprinkle with salt and pepper to taste. Serve to table as is, and let each person mix the salad once they've served it (it's too pretty to mix ahead!)
Karishma says
This looks so yummy! It is a Jewish tradition to eat apples and honey, right? L'shana tova!
kseniaprints says
It is! Toda raba 🙂