• ½ pound Caly Road Little Stone Mountain Goat Cheese (or similar)
• 3 pounds medium sized ruby queen or Chioggia beets
• ½ cup red wine vinegar
• 2 tablespoons butter
• ¼ cup honey
• 2 cups water
• salt and black pepper
• 2 avocados, peeled and sliced
• 1 cup fresh blackberries
• ¼ cup toasted pistachios
• ½ cup baby arugula

Place washed beets in a deep roasting pan.  Fill pan ½ way up the beets with water.  Add vinegar, butter, honey, salt and pepper.  Cover tightly with aluminum foil and roast in a 350 degree oven for 1 ½-2 hours or until a knife goes easily into a beet’s center.  Remove from oven and remove from cooking liquid; reserve cooking liquid.  Wearing gloves, peel off the exterior skin and quarter beets while still warm.  Strain the cooking liquid through a chinois, season to taste with salt and pepper.  Toss beets with reserved cooking liquid.  Serve with fresh goat cheese, avocado, pistachio, blackberries and baby arugula.