Day 22: Beet Röesti ♥
~ recipe updated & photo added in 2006 ~ A real FED (Fast, Easy, Delicious) -- my favorite this month so far! I bet you've never had beets like this. I bet, once you do, you'll cook 'em this way again and again. The recipe caught my eye because I well remember röesti, a traditional Swiss dish of wide, flat, crisp discs of grated potato often served with an egg: mountain-top ambrosia. It comes from 'The Minimalist' Mark Bittman's 1998 How To Cook Everything, a terrific reference cookbook, very contemporary where the traditional ones (Betty Crocker, etc.) now seem dated. I turn to it often in learning mode and find 'just enough' detail. And it has nearly 90 pages of ideas for vegetables alone! BEET RÖESTI Active time: maybe 10 minutes Time to table: maybe 15 minutes Serves 4 1 tablespoon butter 1 large beet (about 1/2 pound), peeled and grated (see ALANNA's TIPS) 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon fresh rosemary, chopped (see TIPS) 2 tablespoons flour M