ROASTED BEET SALAD

Happy New Year--Be Healthy and Happy!

This is an excellent salad that I keep on making over and over again.
12 small or baby beets, trimmed
1/3 cup extra virgin olive oil
3 cups arugula
2 preserved lemons, zest thinly sliced (available wherever Middle Eastern foods are dold)
3 tbs honey

Preheat the oven to 35O F. Place beets and lightly oil them, cover with foil and roast for 45-60 min until tender. Let cool and remove skin. Slice beets and combine with arugula and preserved lemons. Whisk the honey and olive oil and drizzle over salad. Toss and serve.

You may add crumbled feta or blue cheese...

Eggplant Dip With Toasted Pita Bread

Thank you ladies-Do let me know how it come out.

Holidays are coming and here's an easy and tasty appetizer

1 medium eggplant (aubergine) about 1 pound
3 tbs extra virgin olive oil
3 tbs freshly squeezed lemon juice
4 cloves garlic finely chopped
4 pita bread, sliced into wedges and toasted

Preheat oven 400F, place the eggplant on a baking sheet. Pierce with the fork in few places.Bake for 1 hour. Allow to cool, remove the skin and coarsly chopp the flesh. Place in a sieve and squeeze extra liquid. With fork mash the eggplant add oil, lemon juice and garlic. Stir well. Serve with toasted pita bred.

Shrip and Papaya Salad-Salata sa srimpom i papajom

Wonderful, easy and tasty..
1/4 cup sesame oil
1/4 cup freshly squeezed lime juice
1 large papaya, peeled, halved and seeded
11/4 pounds cooked shrimp, peeled and deveined
3 cups curly endive leaves washed

Combine the sesame oil and lime juice, dice the papaya into 3/4 inch pieces add to dressing. Add the shrimp and curly endive and toss well to combine

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