Roots/18 recipes

Sweet roasted beets and fresh basil match perfectly in this easy to make side dish.

Simplified version of a Malaysian favourite dish. I've cooked this dish for the Malaysia Day celebration at 'Les Roches,' Bluche, Switzerland as a student. It was for the summer batch 1st year to 3rd year students, teachers and admin staff - totalling a little less than a thousand pax perhaps.

Rice or ramen noodles make a good partner for this tofu-enhanced vegetable dish with rich mushroom sauce inspired by traditional Chinese cooking.

A spicy hot Indian lamb dish

Yellow Tomato Preserves recipe

A hearty soup just loaded with a huge variety of winter vegetables

*When you buy carambola, also called star fruit, look for ones that are uniformly yellow to orange and have a subtle perfume. If they are green, they aren't ripe and won't yield a great deal of flavor. At their ripest, their flavor is an unmistakably tropical combination of apple, banana and lychee.

A hearty healthy barley risotto is cooked with winter vegetables and fresh greens, definitely will bring some refreshing taste into your Thanksgiving dinner and a good appetizer for a start.