
A trip to Ella's had me thinking up a homemade version of their menu item called "The Roots." The original dish is a combination of oven roasted sweet potato, shallots, pearl onions, pecans, mild chilies and herbs drizzled with balsamic reduction and crumbled feta. The problem with this dish is that the sweet potatoes, balsamic and pecans make it too sweet for my sensitive taste buds. My taste buds rebelled last time I tried something like this and it wasn't pretty. As a result I had to sign an agreement with them that I would never again put [...]