Beets

i add beets to my vegetable burrito mix. makes everything hot pink and they go perfect w/ jalapeños

So far I have eaten them in salads: one w/ pea shoots, avocado, onion, orange muscat/walnut oil/sriracha dressing over romaine
Other was to add more substance to leftover green papaya salad leftover from last night (added fennel too!)

Both were really good, but I kind of keep expecting them to taste like a mango but then they don't.

Leftover leftover

that sounds insane

or at least beets + sriracha is blowing my mind.

It was a tasty and surprisingly subtle combo! Sweet, tangy, spicy.

tbf i think sriracha has been good on everything i've ever put it on

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For the longest time I thought I hated beets because I didn't realize I had only eaten them pickled (my mother was one of those Year Without a Summer gardeners who would grow bushels of things but then immediately preserve or freeze them). I don't know what made me buy them and cook them - they were probably on sale, because this was in grad school - but it was a total revelation to have them boiled, with fried catfish and "tartar sauce" (just pickled garlic with mayo/sour cream).

I made a salad tonight with three different kinds of beets, so I have dubbed it the SEVERE BEETING salad.

Not the best pic, but you can see the beets:

* golden
* candy striped
* regular

I also added orange bell peppers and it was a psychedelic rainbow salad of my dreams.

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great work! I use beets

never seen the candy stripe ones

they're considerably less sweet than the standard beets
and SO beautiful

where do you get these?

farmer's market

I braised some with a bunch of yellow and purple potatoes, and unfortunately they all kinda bled together :-/

(with some steak)
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Mmmmm steak look good

I don't eat meat =(

i've come so far with beets in the last 5 years!

i don't eat very much meat, but i'll eat it

my love for beets has not waned in 6+ years
last night i made a flatbread/pizza thing with

roasted beets
shredded chicken
spinach
gorgonzola
pine nuts
garlic/oo

and it was delicious. just a bunch of stuff from the fridge, but it sat well together.
i feel like at this point it's safe to say that beets and i are bffs 4 life

Nothing special but tasty nevertheless

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would def eat

but it has chicken on it!

oh :(

sorry! i could easily not put chicken on it for your sake. it would taste just as good, it just wouldn't have chicken on it.

I just roasted 4 medium-size beets, two red and two golden! I have long had a severe beet aversion related to a childhood of what my parents called "Harvard beets," which were beets out of a can (or maybe it was a jar?), and anathema to me, made worse by the fact that I always got yelled at for dropping some on myself and thus staining the clothing permanently :(

I am going to slice the roasted beets and toss them with some navel orange and a vinaigrette made with I dunno maybe shallots and sherry vinegar? And some roasted walnuts? Maybe I should pick up some goat cheese. Ohhh and I have tarragon in the garden!

yes, good start! you might want to put that mixture on something green to cut its intensity -- any greens will do. not necessary, but this is my preference.

canned beets are gross and they are also the reason why i thought beets were gross until i tried them again at the beginning of this thread!

I have some arugula, I will put the beets on that!

Canned beets are uuuugh I don't even want to think of them for fear of gagging :(

here's a tip -- toast the walnuts in a pan with some butter, brown sugar, salt, and cayenne pepper -- just enough to make a little crust. it will taste v good with the sweetness of the beets.

Oh that sounds great and I have all of those things at hand!

They're really good -- if you don't want to use them all, you can save them for future salads or toss them into some brownies (sounds weird, tastes great.)

i got some huge beets today. i have had beet brownies and can confirm they are great.

bought a bunch of beets from the market, will be roasting them imo

do u guys eat them hot? all the talk itt seems to be salad-related?

I love them just out of the oven - I always make extras so we have plenty for salads later, but they are so good warm.

i like them both ways
any old way except for out of a can basically

do u guys eat them hot? all the talk itt seems to be salad-related?

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roasting is great but most of the time i just grate them & do something with that - fold it into rice or risotto or something. they work better as a taste (& colour!) than as a skewerable constituent part of a meal, for me.

i'm going to try them roasted with a horseradish/greek yogurt sauce, on spinach (with grilled chicken)

whoa damn that was delicious!

dehydrating them currently. not sure how I feel about this.

Sounds like a lot of work. They keep pretty well in root cellar type storage.

Checked the dehydrator this morning and they felt almost done. We're experimenting with making our own soup mixes.

Hope it works well - did you cut them into cubes?

recent beet revelation: they are awesome in sandwiches! was skeptical when i first noticed this on a menu i was perusing, but then i put some cooked beets, sliced thinly, on a sandwich with stuff - avo, greens, goat gouda, mayo/mustard - and all these things are friends so the combination is really **cking sublime. raw grated beets exude a fair bit of moisture so (on a sando.) the juices end up making it a little soggy, if you're not gonna eat it right away ime.

Civilised countries sell sliced beetroot in tins specifically so that they can go in sandwiches (and burgers)

civilised = tinned beets. uh, duly noted

I’m attesting to their excellence in sandwiches, not scolding you for cooking them!

(The American mode of selling whole cooked beets in plastic shrinky-dinks is properly mental, though)

I would eat cooked beets + goat cheese + greens on anything. It's too bad that the cheapest beets are basically splatoon grenades, though.

lol, sry sic! xxpost

haha i started this thread!!
glad people are coming around to the excellence of beets

just looked upthread and wondering what was this Ethiopian beet salad all about? did it have potatoes? a quick google gives recipes that all have potato, which reminds me of a potato salad my evil step mum made that she called "Russian Potato Salad" that was a potato salad that had cubes of cooked beet in it. another killer application

this opened to the middle of the thread with one of la lechera's beet salad pictures from 7 years ago and i was thinking, "it's 2019, she should get a phone with a better camera" lol

i'm going to pickle beets next year

kind of fascinating imo

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prefer juan wauters solo tbh