We celebrated this year's (July 2008) Tour de France by having a little party at Mamiko and Ben's apartment in Cambridge. Mamiko works with me and her husband Ben is former roadie and hardcore cycling fan (though he rides a Trek for some reason). We picked the day the Tour went over the Col du Galibier and Croix de Fer then up the Alp D'Huez, the classic mountain stage. I had cheated and followed the stage on a blog and knew that Carlos Sastre had won so I brought a lot of cava. But the hit of the party were Mamiko's roasted baby beets. Simple but they tasted of summer.
- Baby beets
- Sea salt
- Olive oil
- Herbs
Trim the beets so that one or two centimeters of the stem remains (stir fry the leaves with some garlic). Scrub them hard so that the skin is clean and scraped down.
Put the beets in a foil pouch, sprinkle with sea salt, drizzle with olive oil, add some summer herbs. Bake until the beets are tender (about thirty minutes at 400 degrees).
Eat with fingers, the crunchy stems are especially delicious and the colours of the beets on your fingers will look lovely.
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