Tops – Zoë's Blog

Even though I have a superb compost bin (see my homemade one in my post « Composting»), I try my best to use and eat all what is eatable, and throw a minimum, leaving only what I really can’t eat. And most of the time this makes me discover little delicatessen…

Do you remember the super soup with radish tops (see my post « Experiments (2) ») ? Well, I have been eating quite a lot of radish lately, so I am the Chef of the radish tops soup now, preparing enough to be able to keep some in the freezer for the cold evenings to come. But I also ate carrots, and recently, beetroots. As I am buying them directly from the farm, the veggies are super fresh and the tops are never removed. I have thus been trying new dishes, here are my latest discoveries:

Fresh beet roots (that I forgot to pictured), boiled in water and prepared in salad once cold, together with shallots, salt, pepper, cayenne pepper, coriander, red wine vinegar and olive oil.
Beetroots tops, pan fried with shallots, salt and pepper, and mixed with pre-prepared chickpeas;
Carrots tops, pan fried with garlic, fresh green onions, salt, pepper and a beaten egg, the overall as a kind of omelet – delicious! (Not to mention that this was made when I had few eggs left from some baking needs…).
And salads, salads, salads!