OOOO WEEE OOOO Killer Tofu!

For the most part, I am NOT a fan of Beets. They look funny, taste funny and tend to dye any dish they are paired with bright red. So when the farm box gave me beets my first instinct was to throw them back. However with the pickings being so slim this week, I felt compelled to use the only interesting item in some way for this blog. I tried to remember if there was ever a time I ate beets with abandon, or noted them in an interesting culinary technique. I recalled a meal The Husband and I enjoyed on our honeymoon in Iceland. We were in Vik (which by the way means "village"), we had just spent the day hiking glaciers and seeing ice floes. It was 7:00 at night, the sun wouldn't be setting for another 5 hours, we were exhausted and hungry and we stopped in this little place with "puffin" in the name for dinner. One of the appetizers we ordered was cured horse meat with pickled beets. I remember the horse meat being delicious, and I know I cleaned my plate, I'm even positive I said something like "hmmm I don't usually like beets but these are good."  Of course all this could have been the Icelandic air, romantic atmosphere and general jet lag, but if I liked pickled beets once before, I may just like them again.