Eating In, Dining Out
Winter Warm-Up: Root Cellar Suppers
As outside temperatures drop warm-up with classic comfort favorites featuring root cellar veggies - potatoes and onions, the vegtables gramdma stocked-up and stored for winter.
Winter cold temps have arrived. Time to cozy down and enjoy recipes featuring those root vegetables we once traditionally stored in the root cellar. Root vegetables such as potatoes, onions and carrots that helped “winter us over” until spring. Our South Side St. Louis truck farm yielded bushels of potatoes and onions each fall, which when stored correctly would last until March. Those potatoes and onions would surface throughout the winter months, appearing in soups, stews, and as the value-added sides cooked with mother’s Sunday beef roast. While root cellars are gaining in popularity among hardcore foodies, most of us don’t have a root cellar filled bushels of potatoes and onions. Nonetheless, it still pays to know how to stock-up and…
