Beets

For those of you keeping score, my weight loss has been successful. So far, I've lost 10 pounds since the end of August. One of the secrets has been to eat many more fruits and vegetables. And since I have the Saturday Alemany Farmer's Market right in my neighborhood, getting fresh produce is a snap. One of the things I have been doing each and every week is to buy something that I don't know how to cook (or sometimes have no idea what the item is) and figure out what to do with it at home. I call it the "chance" item.

Sometimes I lose and get something I'll never buy again. But, a couple weeks ago, I bought beets. I've discovered I LOVE beets. Each and every week since, I've bought beets (I've discovered I particularly like the pink ones I think that are called chogas). I boil them, peel them, dice them and eat them like candy. The fact that it turns my pee a tinge of red is kind of a cool bonus.

This past week, the "chance" was persimmons. They are in season as over half of the vendors were selling the orange fruit. I'm not sure they will rise to the level of beets, but they will not return to the also ran pile of this weird cantaloupe/honeydew hybrid that I though was gross.