3 soft winter vegetables Recipes

beets, carrots, diced, red onion, sliced, fennel bulb, sliced, parsnips, diced, olive oil, kosher salt, fresh ground black pepper, dried thyme, chicken broth or 2 cups vegetable broth, quick-cooking polenta, soft fresh goat cheese (1/4 cup), milk, unsalted butter, crumbled goat cheese, optional garnish

soft fresh goat cheese, milk, whipping cream, sunflower oil or 4 tbsp vegetable oil, cider vinegar, salt, carrots, roughly chopped, apples, cored and quartered, parsnips, roughly chopped, sunflower oil or 2 tbsp vegetable oil, salt, smoked bacon, cubed, cooked beet, peeled and very thinly sliced, handfuls salad leaves