How to Make a Russian Sweet Beet Salad-YUMMY

Onion, herring, potatoes, carrots, and beets are layered in this Russian salad.

This Beet and Potato Salad or Salade Russe is so light, fresh and deliciously colorful. It's a perfect spin on traditional potato salad. From @tasteLUVnourish on www.tasteloveandnourish.com

This month we are going to feature one healthy, wholesome food each morning and give you a well-rounded look at finding it, using it, and eating it. This is part of the food half of the Social Workout Fall Challenge; they're pairing a food with an exercise each day as one of their Feats. Beets! Do you love them? Do you hate them? Either way, we think you should eat them. Beets are one of the treasures of the vegetable world, and you shouldn't let those canned jellied beets put you off. Here are five scrumptious ways to eat fresh and colorful beets.

Chefs love beets, as evidenced by fine dining restaurant menus everywhere, but people generally avoid cooking them at home. Either they think they don’t like them (no doubt due to all those yucky canned salad bar beets) or they prefer to order them in restaurants because they’re not sure how to make them. I, for …