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Touch up your roots! Root vegetables are tuberous veggies where the edible portion of the plant grows underground. This would include potatoes, beets, carrots, parsnips, radishes, turnips, onion, garlic and yams to name a few.  These veggies generally have an inherent earthy sweetness to them that can either be enhanced with sweet spices and sauces or delightfully juxtaposed by savory spices, oils, and vinegars. Pure Birch Syrup, however, can lend semi-sweetness AND fruity tang which happens to taste delicious when layered with beets, carrots, parsnips and yams especially. This time we are going to keep things very, very simple to enable you to experiment...

The simple "stuff" is the right "stuff". All kidding aside, this recipe is part of our easy holiday entertaining series and is not only simple but extremely delicious and versatile. You could add a few more of your fav's such as finely diced red pepper, grated pepper jack cheese or diced shrimp. But now for the simple, quick version...

Delicious doesn't haver to be complicated! If you can mash yams and open a jar of Birch Bacon Jam, you are set.

Or serve cold as an appetizer with charcuterie and cheese boards or add to a salad. Amber Birch Syrup is a versatile cooking tool to have handy in the kitchen. It's sweet balsamic taste profile adds great flavor to roasted veggies of all kinds