An unlikely but beautiful couple, plus pretzels that digest like vegetables

Beets and Butternut!

This wouldn’t have been my first thought for a dinner pairing, but I saw a recipe yesterday for a mostly raw vegan beets and butternut dish, and it was really pretty (and I suppose I also believed that it would taste good!).

I intended to make it exactly as the recipe said, but while I grocery shopped, I made some changes (the truth is that I was in Pittsford Wegmans and I didn’t feel like walking all the way across the store just to get cashews, so I bought goat cheese instead).

I’ve been lacking in the effort department lately in the kitchen, and this was a good compromise—not very labor intensive, but unique and took some planning.