Roots/24 recipes

*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.

Green beans with crunchy water chestnuts in a quick and easy Asian inspired sauce.

Seafood lovers will enjoy this scrumptious dish that doesn't take a lot to make!

Chinese Vegetable Soup recipe

Cream cheese and mascarpone cheese makes this creamy and silky cheesecake, rhubarb and strawberry glaze adds the sweet and sour crunch, and the chocolate covered strawberries gives extra surprise. There are so many delicious things going on all at once, it's such a deluxe luxury!

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Thai scented rice that you make in your rice cooker from the Rice Cooker Gourmet.