roasted beet, arugula and clementine salad

I often blog about what we eat for dinner, which is always something different months at a time, but my lunches are always the same - for weeks and weeks. I get hooked on something and drive it right into the ground and this salad is my current go-to salad. I love it because it's hard to eat seasonal in the winter and this  is what I consider to be a perfect salad for December and January. It's Orange, Roasted Beet & Arugula Salad which I originally discovered through Everyday Food, Fresh Flavor Fast (a variation was published in Everyday Food's October issue).

It was between these two recipes and what I had on hand that I've been enjoying this salad which uses clementines, roasted beets, arugula and pecorino romono shavings. The dressing is a mixture of dijon, orange juice, white wine vinegar (balsamic also works great), olive oil, s&p.

orange, roasted beet and arugula salad

Last night I made Orange, Roasted Beet and Arugula Salad for dinner.

I meal planned before I came up to the cottage so that I could continue working through the book. I just had to decide which recipes could work given the many cooking obstacles up here. Actually, these same limitations have made dinner making much easier so I can spend the most amount of time on the beach and not in the cottage kitchen. I prepped all the dressings before arriving because the cottage naturally wouldn't have a pantry stocked full of 5 different types of vinegar, 3 different types of oil and Dijon mustard. I have to live without fresh cracked pepper this week - oh the sacrafices ;)

Anyways, I picked up these beets at the farmstand down Lakeshore Road in North Bay called L'Amis. I was attempting to be all Francophone about it and saying the name as you would expect a french word would be pronounced. But the neighbours told me it's pronounced - "Lamb-ies". I'm left with so many beets I'm making Quick Pickled Beets this morning.

Back to last night's salad. It's delicious and I highly recommend it. Roasting the beet takes a bit of time, but everything else is just quick assembly. I really enjoy the flavour combination of roasted beet and orange. I think most people were aware of this combination, but I only discovered it since cooking though this book and I'll probably always use it from now on.