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Culinary Experiment #2: Root Vegetables in Orange Sauce
A while back, I picked up a vegetarian cookbook from the local used book store, looking for some tasty new recipes to try out. One of them caught my eye, because it involved several vegetables I've never really tried before, including parsnips, rudabegas, turnips, and kohlrabi. And so, I made it as a side dish for dinner tonight. Unfortunately, two of the root veggies it called for (celeriac and kohlrabi, namely. I'm still annoyed that I couldn't find the latter. After all, you can find brussels sprouts and broccoli at the grocery store. They're all the same species.), so I substituted them with potatoes. The cookbook has a tendency to be a little detail-obsessive (ex: A lot of recipes call for not just tomatoes, but peeled and de-seeded tomatoes. That's a lot of unnecessary work), so I adjusted a lot of the items in it, such as using an equivalent of dried ginger for the fresh grated ginger the recipe calls for.
I still have mixed feelings about how it turned out. It's definitely unusual, and it has an intense orange flavor that I'm still wondering might need to be toned down a bit. It grew on me after a while, though. In any case, though, I think it would be a really good fall/Thanksgiving dish. I'll need to fuss with it though, and see if I can improve the flavor a bit. There was the suggestion to add sweet potatoes into it, or to add raisins as a garnish to it, so I'll probably mess around with those ideas.
I still have mixed feelings about how it turned out. It's definitely unusual, and it has an intense orange flavor that I'm still wondering might need to be toned down a bit. It grew on me after a while, though. In any case, though, I think it would be a really good fall/Thanksgiving dish. I'll need to fuss with it though, and see if I can improve the flavor a bit. There was the suggestion to add sweet potatoes into it, or to add raisins as a garnish to it, so I'll probably mess around with those ideas.