Hot Cooking Tips

• Add a splash to tomato juice for an early morning eye opener.
• Slip a spoonful into a skillet of scrambled eggs.
• Try horseradish on breakfast sausage.
• Give store bought deli items, like cole slaw, potato salad and baked beans, an exciting new taste.
• Mix it with apricot preserves and a little mustard for a great ham glaze.
• Create your own horseradish butter, horseradish mayonnaise, horseradish sour cream dip and horseradish barbecue sauce.
• Make familiar “comfort foods” even more indulgent. Add horseradish to mashed potatoes, meatloaf, applesauce served with pork roast, sour cream on your baked potato.
• A spoonful added to any meat stock adds a delightful flavor and surprisingly delicate horseradish taste to soups.
• For a gourmet appetizer, blend horseradish with softened cream cheese. Spread the mixture on thin slices of rare beef tenderloin and wrap around crisp-tender asparagus spears.
• Cut down on cholesterol by using horseradish instead of butter and salt to top vegetables.
• Season pizza sauce with horseradish before baking for a new twist on an old favorite.
• Follow the example of famed European chefs who use horseradish liberally as an herb. Try adding a spoonful of horseradish to hollandise sauce and serve with salmon or asparagus.
• For tangy deviled eggs, mix together 4 minced, hard cooked egg yolks, 1 tsp. Prepared horseradish, 1 tsp. Minced onion, 1 tsp. Worcestershire sauce, 1/4 C. mayonnaise, 1/2 tsp salt. Spoon mixture into egg-white halves.
• Fill celery stalks with a mixture of 1 cup mashed avocado, and 2 tsp. prepared horseradish. Sprinkle with paprika. Chill
• Blend cream cheese with prepared horseradish for a nippy taste. Spread on thinly sliced ham. Roll up and place, seam side down, on plate. Chill. Cut into bite-size pieces.
• Give corned beef brisket a new taste twist with a horseradish-orange glaze: 2 tbsp. Prepared horseradish, 2 tbsp. Worcestershire, 1/2 C. orange marmalade, 1/2 C. mustard.
• Baste ribs on the grill with a nippy combo of 2 tbsp. dry white wine, 2 tbsp. prepared horseradish, 1 tbsp. vegetable oil and 1/2 tsp. hot mustard.
• Spark up beef stroganoff with a dollop or two of horseradish.
• To a home-made or made-from-a-package pasta and cheese dish, add 1 1/2 C. chopped, cooked ham and 2 tbsp. horseradish mustard. Bake in moderate oven until heated through.