Easy in Ibiza

In Ibiza my day starts with homemade yogurt served with muesli and fruit kebabs followed by a choice of breads, pastries and eggs.

After catching some rays and swimming a few lengths it's time for lunch. I've enjoyed a quinoa and beetroot salad, avocado burrito and asparagus risotto. 

Yesterday I chose a simple dish, so easy to replicate back in Blighty and so refreshing in the current heatwave.

Chunks of watermelon and feta, chopped mint and a drizzle of balsamic vinegar. Done! Easy as that!

Delicioso.

Red as a Beetroot

Beetroot is the tap root part of the beet plant and the beet leaves can be eaten in salad or cooked Iike spinach.  Both parts are healthy; a source of iron, folate, magnesium, vitamin C, potassium, manganese and fibre.

It can be used in many ways; pickled, roasted, grilled, blended into soup or juice, made into a dip, used in risotto or grated in a salad. Beetroot can even be used to make a red velvet cake (with the addition of chocolate).

M&S sell beetroot wraps.

        

I enjoyed an Arcobaleno (meaning rainbow in Italian) pizza topped with tomato, spinach, avocado, chilli threads, purple basil and pink beetroot "beet balls" at Zizzis. 

I won't beet about the bush ... It was delicious!