Sprout & Pea

I’m kick­ing off my first $5 chal­lenge meal with a dish that’s per­fect for both break­fast and din­ner. It also shares a name with my favorite sea­son that is just upon us– red flan­nel sea­son, or as most peo­ple like to call it, autumn. I was first intro­duced to the red flan­nel hash at a favorite local brunch spot and since first order­ing it, I have had a dif­fi­cult time ever order­ing any­thing else. It just hits that sweet and savory spot so well. I’ve been want­ing to recre­ate this myself  for quite some time so when I was crav­ing beets at the end of my work day, this imme­di­ately popped into my mind. I knew it would be a cheap din­ner, but I did not real­ize that I could make this for well under $5. Here’s the cost break­down: Read more:

Grow­ing up, my mom was a big fan of black licorice and bought it on occa­sion as a spe­cial treat. I still remem­ber the first time she gave me some to try and how repulsed I was by the fla­vor. I can pic­ture every­thing about the moment — the mini mart we were in, lean­ing in to smell the long black candy before I took a bite, eying the per­fectly tasty red licorice right next to it won­der­ing why my mom enjoyed this ter­ri­ble smelling food so much. So, it’s no won­der that my mom never pre­pared or served me the healthy veg­etable with a sim­i­lar aroma and taste. Thank­fully, over the years my palette expanded and one day I decided to give the licorice like fen­nel a try. Read more:

This one goes out to all of the break­fast for din­ner fans out there (and to a few very spe­cial ones in par­tic­u­lar). My sweet tooth came back the other night so I attempted to nip it in the bud by mak­ing some pan­cakes. I’ve also had beets on the mind lately, so I thought I would go ahead and try to com­bine the two and sure enough what you see pic­tured above turned out to be a tasty hit-​​the-​​spot din­ner.
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Photo By Corey Towers

This post is going up in honor of the lovely print of the above photo that I just received from my friend, Corey. A few months ago after a cold, rainy Light The Night walk over the Brook­lyn Bridge, I stopped off at Corey’s place to warm up and to my delight, to have some unusual and deli­cious snacks.  Corey had recently become addicted to juic­ing so I was excited when our con­ver­sa­tion was sud­denly drowned out by the sound of his beloved juice machine.
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I made up my own recipe and it actu­ally tasted good!  I had a ran­dom crav­ing for beets and gin­ger this morn­ing and while I was rid­ing the sub­way I started brain­storm­ing what I could do with these two things.

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