So thanks to the authors of this fabulous blog, I joined a local farmers co-op of sorts and get the most fabulous fruits and vegetables that are grown locally and look, smell and taste delicious. I recently got beets and was reminded of this recipe. I was quite shocked and excited to see my comment, and pleased that I was eventually trying the recipe.

I got to step 4 where I needed to use the hand blender to puree and dipped that sucker in the pot and turned it on. Well, needless to say I got beet juice everywhere. I quickly turned it off and realized I would be better off if I just poured it into the blender. Unfortunately, a week or so before this, my nephew melted the bottom of the blender in the dishwasher.

So, I used a potato masher and mashed it as well as I could but it was still rather chunky, reminded me of mashed cauliflower. Feeling rather frustrated, I put the soup in a container and decided I would purchase a blender. I did about 3 days later and finally got to puree the soup. I heated a bowl up and got it all over the microwave…rrrrr.

After cleaning up the microwave, I eventually got to add my sour cream and sit down to taste it. I love the taste, especially with the sour cream. HOWEVER, I have no idea what a ‘medium’ beet is versus any other size, so I used all 7 I had and a half cup more of vegetable stock (cause that is how much was left in the container). This made the soup extremely rich and I could not eat more than a bowl of it if I tried, and I can usually eat more than one bowl of soup.

I will be sure to follow the instructions better next time as I REALLY enjoyed the flavor of the soup!