Wanted: Red Food

[KatieLoeb]

Now you've got me utterly distracted from my job. Here's a list of other stuff I thought of:

Radishes

Red Leaf Lettuce salad

Red Onions, roasted

Red Snapper

Red peppers, stuffed

Red skinned Potato salad

Red Grapes

Radicchio

Thai Red Curry sauce

Anything with cranberries

Red Currants

[elyse]

Something with pomegranite?

Tandoori?

[ronfland]

Not to be anal - but Lillet is made from white wine, and is a LOVELY thing to keep in the refrigerator.

[bigbear]

Ommegang is a red, Belgian-style ale.

Good stuff from Cooperstown, NY.

[JAZ]

Not to be anal - but Lillet is made from white wine, and is a LOVELY thing to keep in the refrigerator.

Actually there are two Lillets: one white (Blond) and one red (Rouge).

[nervousnelli]

Getting back to red food . . .

Are beets a red food or would you call that color purple? I think it could pass as red. They're delicious roasted and then marinated in vinegar, oil and garlic or made into a nice borscht. When added to risotto they make a dramatic presentation as they do when they're used to make pasta.

Also, is cranberry juice red or would you call that color pink? (Mixed with vodka, of course.)

[nightscotsman]

Jello.

[Rachel Perlow]

Hmm, a Flaming Red Gully - made with Blood Orange or Red Grapefruit Juice?

[Suzanne F]

Oh, please Rachel -- I haven't even tasted the original yet, and here you come with such yummy-sounding variations.

[Jim Dixon]

Here's my recipe for beet risotto.

Jim

[Elissa]

the tiniest smidge of grated beets will turn anything impossibly red

[elyse]

Getting back to red food . . .

Are beets a red food or would you call that color purple?  I think it could pass as red.  They're delicious roasted and then marinated in vinegar, oil and garlic or made into a nice borscht.  When added to risotto they make a dramatic presentation as they do when they're used to make pasta.

Also, is cranberry juice red or would you call that color pink?  (Mixed with vodka, of course.)

I'd call beets purple, but cranberies, red. Usually.

[indiagirl]

Hmm, a Flaming Red Gully - made with Blood Orange or Red Grapefruit Juice?

rachel, what on earth is a flaming red gully? i googled it and got a bunch of literature references to women with flaming red hair. doesn't the world revolve around food?

thanks all, for the education and food suggestions.

beet of some kind will definitely be in the menu. the roasted one sounds delicious. i'm thinking a salad with the roasted beets and pomegranate and lemon juice, perhaps? i'll have to actually start cooking to know if that will work.

or a pomegranate soup

i'm steeping some saffron in milk as we speak so i can add it to the risotto. i'll go shop for lobster tails but am too inexperienced to know for sure that the local fishmonger will have some.

perhaps a delicate tomato chutney to go with the risotto.

the thread has given me so many options.

btw, i think of neither beets nor cranberries as being red but i think they're both in the family.

[Suzanne F]

What's a Flaming (fill in the color) Gully?!?!? Look HERE Yes, OUR world revolves around food, and drink too.

If you make a tomato chutney, try Suvir's recipe.

[suzilightning]

Not to be anal - but Lillet is made from white wine, and is a LOVELY thing to keep in the refrigerator.

there are both red and white but i prefer the red which also resided in the fridge