Beet Risotto and Carrot Soup

Dinner last night was a feast for the eyes and belly!!!

It was one of those nights where everything lined up perfectly. I had to work late (okay, so not so perfect) and we had lots of beets and carrots leftover from our CSA box. It ended up in G making dinner for us, a delicious carrot ginger soup and beet risotto. Now the bad news... I was so stomach growling hungry that I forgot to take a picture of the risotto until it was in today's tupperware for lunch! Oops.

The soup...


And here is the risotto, not in the pretty white bowl, but just tucked away in the little Ikea tupperware:


Now, I find a good few things odd with this... 1) It looks like Cocoa Rice Krispies, and it isn't and 2) it's made with beets and I HATE beets. Fully. When I was a kid, my grandfather grew beets (among other things) and would pickle them. We had them frequently with holiday dinners and the like. I really have always disliked them, they are so earthy or something. But, the beet risotto is incredibly delicious.

Today, we received the second installment of our CSA box from Wanigan. It was better than the last one... don't believe me? See for yourself...



Look at that food!!! There's organic spinach, organic lettuce, organic shitake mushrooms, organic rutabagas, onions, potatoes and the dreaded parsnip. So we had set out a small piece of steak and were trying to think of something to make for dinner that would utilize some of our new stuff but wouldn't let the steak go to waste...

And here it is... VOILA...



We had our organic leaf lettuce, hard-boiled eggs, red pepper, tomato, steak, cabbage, steamed potatoes and hemp seeds. It was fantastic! We had it served like this...



I had a little Caesar dressing on mine... wooooo, it was good! We had our lovely salad with the rest of the carrot soup from last night... I am not a huge fan of salads, and really do love salads that have lots of things in them, especially eggs... So this was fantastic. The meat was from Cumbrae's, which was very tasty and only took a minute to cook. Yeah for good dinner on super cold Toronto days!!!