Beets!

One of my biggest goals in 2012 was to eat healthier and so far I am on the right track!  I also want to try new foods and 6FIT inspires me to do that because if the food of the week is something I am unfamiliar with, I feel compelled to at least try it once because I get a lot of points for doing so!! And I have reached out to my team twice, once for kale recipes and again last week for beet recipes.  Nothing worse than trying a new food by cooking it the wrong way so it tastes and horrible as possible!

Last week my sister was visiting and we set out in the morning to roast some beets to eat on a salad with gorgonzola, walnuts and spinach for lunch that day.  We cleaned three beets, cut off the tops and bottoms, left skin on, and put them in a roasting dish with about a half inch of water, covered with foil and roasted for about 45 minutes at 400 degrees.  Man, those things are a beautiful shade of purple after they are done cooking!!  Lunch came and went sans our planned beet salad, so we just cut them in to pieces, sprinkled some balsamic vinegar on top and ate them as a side dish to our dinner.

And they were not too bad!

Not my favorite food ever, but I know now that if I ever see that aforementioned beet salad on a restaurant menu, I will try it in a heartbeat.

What new foods have YOU tried lately?  Care to share the recipe of that or any beet recipe you like?