Roasted Beet-Garlic Soup- Before Ms. Boyardee opened my eyes and mouth to different tastes, I could say I lived a food sheltered life. I often said I didn't like things even if I hadn't tried them (I still do this with seafood but am too stubborn to change). Beets was one of the things I just assumed I would hate. I think this underlying dislike for beets came from watching CSI when in one episode Grisham's suspect was eating kidneys which he mistook for beets. Then Ms. Boyardee made me a beet goat cheese (which is good on anything by the way) salad and I was hooked.
One thing that Ms. Boyardee didn't inform me of after introducing me to beets was that they stain everything…and I mean EVERYTHING. Hands, shirts, and…for lack of a better word…bowel movements (not sure if I have PG rated readers….or any readers for that matter). The day after I ate my first beet meal, I thought I ruptured something in my lower intestine. Somehow painlessly, I thought my duodenum had dislodged and I had passed it and I was now "bleeding" from areas you don't want to bleed from. Thankfully, it was just beet juice, learning experience for us all.
Wow, I wrote way too much without even talking about the soup. It was unreal, it had the consistency of apple sauce, and Ms. Boyardee put in triple the garlic. ( I think she's secretly afraid of vampires after too much twilight movies). It was missing a little something though and Ms. Boyardee added a little goat cheese…perfection. The photo below, I think is evidence that we're ( Maybe just Ms. Boyardee) getting too carried away with the perfection of the photos, I think Loblaws may hire her as a food photographer at this pace. All in all the soup was hard to... beet ( yeah I went there).
Rating:
Ms. B: 3.9/5 " Extra 0.4 just for the beets"
J: 3.5
Sweet Potatoes with Coconut, Pomegranate and Lime- This to me sounded like a very awkward mix of ingredients and I was intrigued to see how it would taste. The sweet potatoes were cooked and prepped by Ms. Boyardee on my arrival. All we had to do was toast the coconut and get all the pomegranate seeds out. In my opinion, Pomegranates are a all work, little reward kind of food. You spend 15 minutes getting the little buds out and then you devour them in 30 seconds. In this instance, Ms. Boyardee had already done the dirty work so I just reaped the rewards. The coconut flakes had to be lightly toasted. Ms. Boyardee put them in the oven and then we proceeded to do a little dance in the living room to some background Frank Sinatra ( a key ingredient to cooking). The coconuts were then burnt, and we had to start over and almost burnt the second batch as "Fly me to the moon" came on and almost stole us away again.
Then it was picture time. The picture is a little ridiculous and half the ingredients are scattered everywhere not even on the potatoes. I thought Ms. Boyardee was having a stroke, and missing her target, but no, she was being artistic ( how stupid of me). The potatoes surprisingly kind of worked. The cilantro gave a unique taste, the pomegranate the sweetness with the potato and the coconut added texture and toastiness (that's now a word). You had to make sure not to put too much cilantro or it could over power the dish but I think overall it was a success. We're really settling into this whole transforMEATion food blog now and am up to 160 views! I swear only about 153 of those are mine and Ms. Boyardee, the fan base is growing.
Rating:
Ms. B: 3/10
J:3/10
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