Well, the boat is out of the water and we are almost back to Vancouver. Has the sun come out yet there? No …

Yesterday was our haul out day and our amazing boat house, Caelestis, was taken out of the water for Hurricane season. I honestly feel like a couple days ago we were both like “We have 2 weeks till we are out of the water tons of time” and then it was like BOOM an hour later we were out. It was also quite interesting taking it out. We had gone into the marina a few days before to confirm our time and noticed that the slip was quite small so we asked how wide it was. Well, out boat is 24 feet wide and they informed us that the slipway was 25 feet wide. Not exactly a lot of room. As this point I silently said to myself “Thankfully I am not the one that drives the boat.” Six inches on each side, really?

Let me tell you, when we went in yesterday morning I was defiantly happy about a few things. One, there was absolutely no wind. Two, we luckily have some very small back up fenders. Three, we had our friend helping us. If you are reading this Thank You again.

Anyways, now she is out of the water (Yes, most boats are a She) and the dreaded ‘take down” of the boat begins. What exactly does a take down mean you ask? Well let me tell you. It involves lots and lots and lots of cleaning inside and outside of the boat where it is roughly 35 degrees everyday and zero wind. it is defiantly not the glamorous side of boat ownership but I love it none the less.

Last night at our hotel they had a street food party which was a perfect end to a very long hot day. The food was incredible, the live music was such a treat and of course the rum punches were well, they are rum punches they are always amazing. We had a dish called an Oil Down which is basically Grenada’s National Dish. Oddly enough, I have been coming here for 7 years and have never tried it. My whole Caribbean Life started here and I have never tried it. Ridiculous. Well it was incredible and now I am regretting never trying it. It is basically a whole bunch of root vegetable, homemade dumplings and stewed meat in a very delicious light curry sauce. Its 8am in the morning and if someone gave me a bowl right now 100% I would eat it.

Another dish that we tried was called a Double. I was just about to say “It doubles as a breakfast food and a late night snack” and thought, hmm I wonder if thats why they call it a double but probably not. It has a light dough wrapper, for me it tastes similar to a roti skin but with turmeric, and the inside is filled with a curried chickpea lentil stew. It was so delicious and after learning it was a breakfast dish reminded me of eating all the savoury breakfast street foods in Asia. The more I travel the more realization I have that for me personally, our breakfasts are boring. I would rather wake up and have a double or a bowl of Pho or rice with a Thai fried egg over eggs toast sausage and hash browns any day. That just my taste though

Ok, now I am really hungry

I am waiting for Rob to wake up so we can go have breakfast together. I wonder if I type loud on my keyboard it will wake him up? Probably not … but maybe

Ok, now lets talk about the real reason you are here and its about this super delicious beet tart. I love beets and its just an added bonus that they are so good for you. I have said before that Rob isn’t exactly the biggest fan of them so the last time he was away for business I went to the local market and bough a ton of them. Usually, I just cook a bunch of them up and throw them in my salads or roast them for a nice side dish but I really wanted them to be the centre piece of my dish.

So, basically I took all the ingredients I would put in a salad, beets, walnuts, goat cheese, balsamic, and combined it into a tart. Let me tell you, it was addicting. I made two, thinking that I would have one for lunch and the other would double as my dinner but it didn’t make it. I ate one for lunch and then throughout the day I kept nibbling on the other one.

It was an odd way of eating dinner, one piece at 4pm, one piece at 5pm, one piece at 6pm. Whatever I don’t need to conform to the dinner rules

Well, I hope you love this tart as much as I did. Its …..

1. Delicous
2. Quick
3. Easy
4. Vegetarian
5. Simple
6. Fresh
7. Goat Cheese = Heaven

This recipe is for two but if ends up just being for one, thats ok too. no judgement here