With their bright red juice, deep flavor and succulent flesh, beets might as well be the official vegetable of Halloween. (Pumpkins are fruit, remember.)
This beet salad is from Stella McCartney, who wrote a new book, "The Meat Free Monday Cookbook: A Full Menu for Every Monday of the Year" (Kyle Books, $22.95) with Annie Rigg as well as her dad, Sir Paul, and sister Mary.
She candies pecans while roasting beets inside a foil packet and preparing the endive leaves. The beets are easy to peel and slice after they've been in the oven for about an hour, and although the endive has a bitter taste, the candied nuts, pears and feta take off the earthy edge.
