Beet It

Happy Valentine’s Day!

Well, I suppose it’s post v-day now, isn’t it?

I wanted to post about this

Not Michael Jackson- About beats! But this post has to do with Beets. 

Fun Fact: I took aerobics my first year of college and for a group project we choreographed an aerobics routine to this song!

So I went to the shops in prep.

Bargains and over priced fruit at their best

Maybe I felt okay splurging £2 on those Holiday-themed fruit (although I did skip the berries in the heart shaped plastic container) because I saved £1 on that almond butter?

*half price? So that means those 16 strawberries were originally £4? lawd have mercy.

Then, I set to it!

I should call this blog “Blue Plate Special” because this is seriously the only plate I own!

Yes. There are 9

Look nice, right? Well they didn’t work out quite how I wanted.
I wanted proper pink pancakes, like I saw when I looked up a recipe for these.

I bought a beet at the farmer’s market and  everything. Maybe I boiled it for too long?

I also added too much baking powder. Please pay attention to your baking powder in concern for your poor pancakes. They want to be loved in all of their pillowy, absorbable spendour. Unfortunately, I could not love mine for this reason.

Not very valentine-y of me, now is it? But I will tell you that I ate them anyway. Because I did.

Just covered with copious amounts of yogurt.

I just love looking at them.

*fun fact: the little heart almost fell on the floor as I carried these from the kitchen. The entire tower toppled and cascaded down the side of the plate like pancake dominoes.

Anyhow, here is the recipe I made it with.

Don’t Beat Yourself Up For Being Single Pancakes
Serves one solitary young woman
3 tbsp beet puree (maybe don’t boil your beet for too long and you’ll end up with more redness?)
1/3 cup spelt flour
1/3 cup wheat bran
what was probably too much of both baking powder and baking soda
stevia
finished off a bottle of vanilla (not too much, guys!)
2 tbsp yogurt
3 tbsp water (since I only have goat’s milk and that’d taste not well)
2 egg whites

1. mix dry
2. mix wet
3. mix together
4. marvel at how simple this all is
5. put in pan. cook.
6. eat.  (serve with valentine’s themed things like strawberries and yogurt)

Things to do:

-Make sure you try to dye the white shirt that has stains on it with the beet juice. And watch it turn a really ugly dirty brown. The amount of times you have tried to save that shirt by dying it with vegetables has just gone up by one. The number of times it has worked still remains a solid zero.

-Love yourself this week. I spent so much time last week freaking out about papers and not being in love with college (no, we’re not valentines) and since I have this week off, I’m going to treat myself to Whole Foods tomorrow (hello £17 salad bar box!) and take a trip to the V&A.

-Wear an outfit you love. Look at yourself in the mirror (even if you have to climb on your toilet). Tell yourself you’re beautiful. 

You're beautiful