Celebrating Red and White!
By : Ontario Kitchen | On : 2012-07-01 | Category : cherries, beets Happy Canada Day everyone! To celebrate our country turning 145 we are cooking red and white recipes, and oh boy is there some delicious red produce available right now at your local farmer's market. Lets get started! source: Ontario Kitchen These aren't those salty, bready, deep fried pockets so often covered with cheese and bacon that you get at restaurants or the grocery store. These light and chewy treats are more like dumplings with their flour and water based dough. Making perogies (or pyrohy if you're Ukrainian Canadian) is something few people have probably tried. It can be a time consuming process, but a rewarding one since they freeze so well and can last you all year (though you may want to double or triple our recipe to make enough to last that long, they tend to disappear quickly).
Fruit perogies can be served as a side dish or a dessert, and can support different toppings. You could try a yogurt based sauce, or maybe a sprinkling of cinnamon sugar and some ice cream. The standard around here is to serve them with a mixture of sour cream and brown sugar (about two tsp of brown sugar for every half cup of sour cream).
source: Ontario Kitchen
This sandwich has a light and refreshing taste and will provide a satisfying vegetarian alternative at your next picnic.
There aren't any foods that we can think of that are redder than a beet. Roasting intensifies the redness in beets while also concentrating their natural sugars, making them sweet and satisfying. However, that means you should be careful when handling them (use gloves or paper towels to avoid pink fingers), and also use non-porous cutting surfaces (like glass or ceramic). You can roast your beets in advance and refrigerate them, which makes this recipe quicker to put together when you're ready to eat.
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Summertime Roasted Beet Sandwich
