The art of preparing root vegetables

At Stone Soup, a lot of cooking is done in a  Finnish fireplace. A Finnish fireplace has a woodbox, where the wood burns, an oven to cook in, and a chambered chimeny, which circulates heat back through the chimeny instead of going out through the top. All the wood has to be burned up before you close up the chimeny vent, or else smoke and other noxious death-bringing gases are piped into the house. That is an important thing to understand.

Implements

We cook in that oven a lot- because it is almost, exactly a bazillion times more delicious then any other way of cooking. The flavors are very pronounced, the smoky flavor can be integrated into the food by removing the cover, and it is very energy efficient, because the heat you are cooking with also heats the house.

Carrots, leeks, turnip, rutabaga, beets, celery, my thumb .

Into the oven with you veggies.

And out comes marvelous food.