{"id":2449,"date":"2007-01-01T16:08:37","date_gmt":"2007-01-01T23:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=2449"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:41:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:41:40","slug":"change-of-pace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2007\/01\/01\/change-of-pace\/","title":{"rendered":"Change Of Pace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a new year and we&#8217;re off running, trying to find a place to live. We like our rental house, but the landlords decided to let their son have it. So we need to find a place to live, pack, and move by February 15. We have looked at 30 places so far, with limited success.<\/p>\n<p>My days are focused on unpacking from our holiday trip to visit my family, putting new presents away, and starting to sort stuff for Goodwill. However, I do have a moment to post a really simple recipe from a holiday dinner. My mother found the beets and we tried a recipe on the package. I&#8217;m not a regular beet eater because I don&#8217;t quite know what to do with them. This dish was savory and so easy to make. I didn&#8217;t calculate the Weight Watchers points yet; given it uses butter and cream, it&#8217;s not a low-point dish.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Red Beets with Thyme Cream<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2 8 oz. pkg of <a href=\u201dhttp:\/\/www.ams-exotic.com\/retail\/steamed.html\u201d>Earth Exotics Diced Red Beets<\/a><br \/>\n4 shallots finely chopped<br \/>\n3\/4 cup heavy cream<br \/>\n2 Tbsp. fresh thyme<br \/>\n4 Tbsp. butter<br \/>\n3 Tbsp. red wine vinegar<br \/>\nsalt and pepper<\/p>\n<p>In a medium saut&eacute; pan, brown shallots in butter, add fresh thyme and heavy cream. Add salt &#038; pepper, bring mixture to a simmer, mix in beets. Let simmer approximately 8-10 minutes, finish by adding red wine vinegar.<\/p>\n<p>You can probably use 2 cups of diced red beets that have been briefly steamed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a new year and we&#8217;re off running, trying to find a place to live. We like our rental house, but the landlords decided to let their son have it. So we need to find a place to live, pack, and move by February 15. We have looked at 30 places so far, with limited [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11213,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449\/revisions\/11213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}