Rain's Thursday Art and Dinner Date - Lanterns and Vinegret Russian Beet Salad

Welcome to Rain's Thursday Art and Dinner Date. Here are my lanterns for this week's theme. It is an ACEO (2 1/2" x 3 1/2") outlined with an acrylic marker and coloured in with watercolour pencil.

 

 For the Dinner Date I made a Vinegret Russian Beet Salad.  My friend S had given me some fresh beets and suggested this recipe she got from a friend.  It calls for onions and I found another similar recipe that sautes them in oil before adding them to the salad.  I decided to try that as well.

4 medium beets

2 medium potatoes

2 carrots

3-4 dill pickles

1 onion

2 c frozen peas

1/2 tsp dried parsley

1/2 tsp dried dill

a sprig of fresh coriander

1 c sauerkraut

1 green onion

Dressing

2 tbs olive oil

1/2 tsp salt

1/2 tsp pepper

Boil potatoes and carrots for 30 mins.  In a separate pot, boil beets for 50 mins as it will tint the water.  Cool veg, peel and slice into cubes.  Dice onions and pickles.  I sauteed my onions in a bit of olive oil.  You can oil the cubed beets so they don't leak.  

Mix all veg, peas, pickles, chopped sauerkraut, dressing, herbs, green onion.

Enjoy!