Since I'm all about convenience, I made some stuff tonight that I can just nuke for lunch or dinner tomorrow and the next day. I really like cooking, but not every day! :)
I also have to be inspired... and today I was inspired by a little-used root vegetable known as a beet.
Quick- can you tell me what an uncooked beet looks like? No...it's not cyllindrical, nor is it metallic!
This is what beets look like when they come out of the ground!
AWESOME....
So what the heck do you do with it??? (I have never ever ever cooked a beet in my life...which is strange considering my eastern European background!)
According to my new cookbooks...there are many ways to cook a beet...I chose to bake it like a potato! And boy was that easy! And tasty!
Once it was done, the skin pretty much just fell off it, and I sliced it chunky style and drizzled a bit of white wine vinegar on it and YUMMY!
The full array of fast-slow-food for the next couple of days includes roasted turnip, potato (which I am supposed to skip on, but I have some, so I should use them up- I am not a big potato fan in the first place, so giving them up shouldn't be the end of the world!)onions, asparagus, lightly sauteed local bok choy (who knew Bermuda was so diverse?)and brown rice. That sould keep me going for the next couple of days, then all I have to add to the meals is protein. Today I had beans at lunch and fish for dinner (OMG! I totally eat fish now - see what island life has done to me?)
Tomorrow, maybe tofu! We'll see!
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