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Aromatic Sugar for Roasting – Pink Pepper, Cardamom & Mace

July 12, 2013 by Ariel 3 Comments

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Have you ever thought about roasting fruits?  Funny idea maybe, or maybe not….

For my taste, one of the best ways to showcase veggies is to roast them.  I love roasted sweet potatoes, roasted fennel, carrots and pretty much every veggies I found, I tried to roast it.  It just makes every flavors come out perfectly and it’s like having a small piece of heaven in my mouth.

…then I thought…

Why not trying to roast fruits to make a fun topping for yogurt, maybe oatmeal, cakes or even as a side dish beside a traditional breakfast!?  Would that be possible or even tasty?  In fact IT IS!  and it’s damn delicious!  Almost everything could be roasted as long as its slightly firm and you have to try to see if you like.  My first try was with a supreme of oranges but for you, the sky is the limit!  These days I dream of roasting green apples, peaches, pineapples, strawberries and more…  Be sure that I’ll keep you posted on my experimentation via this blog and my facebook page (for the social media addicts who’s following me) but try it out on your own and let me know how it turned out.

Today I’m presenting you this sugar blend as “roasting sugar” but again, it could easily be used for any other type of  purposes like on top of a freshly cut grapefruit, to add an extra kick of flavor to your oatmeal and more…  Either way I hope you’ll enjoy it  as much as I do :)…

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Filed Under: Recipes, Spice Blend Tagged With: cane sugar, green cardamom pods, ground, mace, nutmeg, peppercorns, pink pepper, recipe, roasting, roasting fruits, sugar

Roasted Fennel with Grains of Paradise, Honey and Thyme

January 25, 2013 by Ariel 1 Comment

I meant to post this yesterday but life had decided otherwise…

 Here’s the first recipe of many others where I’m using the amazing grains of paradise that we learned about in my previous post.  Like I told you in that post, one of my favorite uses for these amazing peppery seeds is on roasted veggies and what’s better than roast fennel bulbs seriously.  This recipe is simple and delicious plus you can serve this side dish with pretty much anything.  I personally love it on the side of  a big juicy steak 😉

Enjoy!

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Filed Under: Recipes, Side Dish, Vegetables, Vegetarian Tagged With: alligator pepper, cooking, fennel, grains of paradise, honey, peppery, recipe, roasted, roasting, seed, side dish, spicy, sweet, thyme, vegetable

Make you own Butternut Squash / Pumpkin Puree

December 26, 2012 by Ariel Leave a Comment

I realized that earlier this autumn I said that I had made my own pumpkin puree for my recipes but never thought about showing you how to create your own.  It’s super easy and once you try it will be really hard for you to go buy the canned version again.  Today I’ll be making butternut squash puree but you can use this same technique for making pumpkin puree, other squash and even potatoes.

The secret is all in the roasting…  Hope you find this post informative 🙂

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Filed Under: Recipes Tagged With: baked, basics, butternut, olive oil, oven, pumpkin, puree, recipe, roasted, roasting, squash, vegetable, veggies

Roasted Garlic

June 24, 2012 by Ariel 2 Comments

Roasted Garlic is so easy to do, versatile in the kitchen and you can make a ton in advance for future recipes 🙂  I love the way the garlic shell look like a beautiful flower…

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Filed Under: Recipes Tagged With: ariel rebel, arielrebel, broil, cloves, flower, garlic, oven, repice, roasted, roasting

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