After a long week of several friends visiting and going out to fancy restaurants and eating rich food, it’s a relief to have a pickled salad hanging out in my refrigerator waiting for me.
I call this my beet shred (it has been on this blog before), but what started as misreading/misremembering a recipe is pretty much a simple salad of all the purple things together at once.
Shredded purple cabbage, thinly sliced purple onions, sliced raw beets, and some red wine vinegar.
It’s great as a taco topping or fancy side salad with a vivid presentation. But it’s also just comforting to eat on it’s own (or over rice).
Tonight I lit candles for the first night of Hanukkah. The last two years I’ve been using the fancy menorah of my childhood, but I’ve also been missing this small one made out of gears (which move!) that I picked out and bought for myself when I established a household of my own.