Ginormous Beet Soup

My garden produced an average beet crop. That is, average-sized beets. And then I pulled out this monster. Either it was raised on steroids or it got an extra shot of compost -- perhaps, to a beet, that's one in the same.

The average-sized beets found their way into beet and walnut salad. This gal, well, she deserves a place of honour in the soup pot!