Day 4 - Pot on Fire!

Today's menu:

• Blueberry-Almond Butter Smoothie
• Leftover cold soba-noodle salad from yesterday
• A tangerine
• Pot-Au-Feu

So tonight's dinner dish was this lovely soup called Pot-Au-Feu, which translates to pot-on-fire. Not sure why, exactly, but I like the name. And the soup. Matt and I agreed that if we were to make it again, we'd change the recipe in the following ways:

1. Season the beef. A little salt and pepper can make a big difference.
2. Saute the beef and add it to the soup at the very end. It's not cooking long enough to really get a lot of the beef flavor in there, anyway.
3. Possibly add some greens. Spinach would be a nice touch.

However, even without those changes the soup was great. I've never had a beef-stew-like-dish that included parsnips and rutabaga. They are so much more flavorful root vegetables than potatoes! Will definitely be using them more in the future.

Regarding this smoothie, which we also ate on Day 2, I just want to say that it may be my new favorite smoothie recipe. The almond butter makes it so good and filling. Plus I love blueberry anything. If only we had picked and frozen our own blueberries last summer...this would even have been really cheap! Have to remember that this year.