Roasted beets hit a tasty middle ground when you turn them into a salad with blue cheese, peppery arugula, crisp apples, and sunflower seeds, all tied together with a tangy lemon-chive vinaigrette.

Some of my favorite foods are perennials. When used to refer to food plants, perennial means that the plant lives from year to year and does not die after flowering once. While many perennial food ...