lazy womans health food beets and sweet

Lazy woman's health food: beets and sweet potatoes

As happens all too often, my kitchen has a backlog of dirty dishes

and, as I confessed to just a couple of posts ago, I was lacking the

motivation to do anything about it or cook dinner by the end of the

work day yesterday. Fortunately, I had the ingredients for a lazy

woman's healthy dinner that took all of 10 minutes of active prep

time.

Ingredients:

Beets

White wine vinegar

Sweet potatoes

Yogurt (I prefer Greek, which is increasingly available in grocery

stores)

Garlic powder

Salt

Cheese, optional

**I was able to purchase everything but the vinegar, salt and yogurt

at the Greensboro Farmers Curb Market and, with the Goat Lady Dairy

starting to offer yogurt, the list of grocery store items will soon be

even shorter

I scrubbed the beets and wrapped them in foil with a splash of the

vinegar, which I think aids the sweetness of the beets. Then, I

scrubbed the sweet potatoes, poked holes in them and stuck everything

in a 400 degree oven.

Then I read a book for an hour.

Once the sweet potatoes were soft to the touch and the beets could be

easily pierced with a knife, I mixed together the yogurt, garlic

powder and salt while the beets cooled a little. To avoid pink hands

and to buffer the heat, I slapped on some latex gloves and peeled the

beets by rubbing them briskly with a paper towel; they were then

sliced to roughly 1/4-inch disks... very roughly.

I cut open the potatoes - Rob topped his with cheddar and cinnamon; I

stuck a dollop of the yogurt on mine. I divided the rest of the yogurt

between our plates and topped with beet slices. I sprinkled the slices

with the tiniest bit of kosher salt and tah-dah, a lazy woman's

healthy dinner.

The beets are a recipe from one of my favorite cookbooks, Arabesque -

they also suggest a drizzle of olive oil which I often do, using

Giacomo's brand. It nights like these that make me wonder why I ever