Newton in the Kitchen
Newton at the Farmers' Market: Salt-and-Coffee Roasted Beets and Beet and Avocado Salad
The salt-crusted method of roasting is kind of a combination between a recipe and a science experiment. It is basically like creating a clay oven around your beets, and this version with coffee grounds adds flavor as well as a baking medium.
Throughout the summer and early fall, I will be spotlighting various merchants at the Tuesday Cold Spring Park Farmers' Market and Friday Post 440 Market and sharing recipes prepared with their produce and products. Merchant: El Recreo Estate Coffee, Dedham, MA/Jinotega, Nicaragua What they sell: “City Roast,” a medium-bold coffee, both in whole beans and ground. About the farm: Hector and Miriam Morales are the US distributors/marketers for the coffee from Miriam’s family farm in Nicaragua. The 364-acre coffee farm has been in operation by her family for 30 years and is the year-round home to 20 families who work on the farm. El Recreo has on its premises a School of Technical Training as well as a school for the children of the workers …
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