Un-beet-able

*I’m glad you all seemed to enjoy our videos. What can I say? We’re entertainers. *

As I mentioned in the last post, last night I decided to roast a beet. Now, I’m not entirely sure I’m a fan of beets – but I’m getting there.

2 weeks ago at the Farm to Table Conference we saw a cooking demo by a personal chef. She made a salad of arugula, roasted beets, wheatberries, and goat cheese. She explained the processed of roasting beets and I was intrigued. Plus, I really like the sample taste of the salad – beets and all.

Roasting beets is really quite simple:
* Line a baking sheet with foil
* Rub a cleaned beet with olive oil and sprinkle salt on it
* Wrap the beet up in foil tightly, place on baking sheet
* Roast at 400º for about 2 hours

When I took the beet out, it looked something like this:

To get the skin off, you just rub it with a paper towel. Pretty soon you’ll have the makings of a crime scene on your hands.

Your hands will turn bright pink, and the paper towel will look like you’ve been bleeding all over the place. Once it’s cleaned, you can trim it and slice it up.

I sliced up the beet, and then cubed it. And got rid of the evidence…

You’re left with an innocent looking batch of freshly roasted beets.

Something so brightly colored must be good for you!

This morning I was going to add some of the beets to our smoothies, but I already had so many other things picked out that I forgot about them. Maybe tomorrow…

Yesterday I picked up a giant container of spinach at Whole Foods since we’re running low on kale (we like to alternate between the 2).

Sonny, of course, was interested so Joe indulged his curiosity at a safe distance.

Can you imagine sticking your face in a big container of spinach? Whatever makes you happy…

The folks at Superfood Snacks sent us a package of some of their products yesterday. We got several of their “Super Smoothie Mixes” so I knew I had to add some to today’s concoction. I chose this one:

I don’t think I added enough to make it taste any different (about 1 tablespoon), but reading all the benefits made me believe it tasted better. Here’s what they say about it:

Purple Clarity Super Smoothie Mix is a synergistically balanced fusion of exotic raw organic & wildcrafted ancient superfoods and specialty ingredients from around the world.

Sounds good to me! Tomorrow I’ll try adding a little more.

In addition to our smoothies I decided to have a new snack with breakfast, also from Superfood Snacks:

These little treats are raw and chock full of good things.

Here’s what they say about these:

Our delicious & super-nutritious Green Chocolate Dream Truffles are 100% raw, certified organic, & handcrafted with love. They are high in antioxidants, nutrient dense, and rich in enzymes.

Enzymes play a key role in the digestive process. Most foods are enzyme deficient due to over processing and being exposed to high heat levels. Green Chocolate Dream contains a variety of enzyme rich energizing raw superfoods like goji berries, agave nectar, maca root & raw cacao.

Some of the many benefits of eating raw enzyme rich superfoods is they’re energizing, support a clear mind and healthy looking skin.

This superfood snack will power you through! Green Chocolate Dream comes in at 27, 664 on the ORAC antioxidant scale, almost 5 times higher than blueberries. *

Again, sounds good to me! But the best thing about them is that they are DELICIOUS! I couldn’t savor them enough. I ate 2 of them for a total of 110 calories… not too bad. It was a great pairing with our smoothies which came in around 170 calories each. I feel very energized to get through the day!

No Pirates game tonight so I’ve got Joe at home so we can hang and watch some good Thursday night tv. I can’t believe it’s Thursday already! Hope your day goes well.