Beets

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

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 2 December 2012 19:25 (32 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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

well, this year, but when the beets start growing again

lately i have been making the ethiopian beet salad very simply -- matchstick sliced raw beets (regular, golden, or mix of both) + raw green beans cut into 1" pieces + either queso fresco/farmer's cheese/a fancy feta (sheep milk for example) with some quality olive oil and salt/pepper. the rest of the dishes i usually make to eat with it are so heavily spiced that it's a nice counterpoint imo.

you could put potatoes into it if you want! small ones (cooked, obvs, probably boiled/cooled?)

i should definitely get a phone with a better camera in 2019 though that's for sure. my phone is probably 6 years old! i also got locked out of my flickr account for ?? a long time

mine's old too, your pictures after that one looked fine! it just took me back to simpler times

i love raw grated beets in a veggie wrap -- press them between paper towel first though or the juice gets everywhere

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

― sans lep (sic), Sunday, 13 January 2019 18:23

Underrated giveaway you're Australian in the brackets there.

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

― sans lep (sic), Sunday, January 13, 2019 7:36 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Have never seen this in the USA but it's standard in French supermarkets, and fabulous. Would you rather have to boil them first to prepare them? Obviously we can buy raw beets as well.

raw grated beets + grated apples + grated cabbage = THE BEST COLESLAW.

with a bonus of red fingertips for the next 24+ hours.

oh, will try that tout de suite!

i prefer fresh cooked they taste much better, imho, and i take exception to extra plastic packaging. but cooked, store-bought beets are a pretty good product and a nice convenience in a pinch. xpost

Euler: tins, the alternate container I cited, hold the juice safely inside for as much of the contents as you don’t use at first. Flappy plastic with scissor-cuts in will spill it throughout the fridge, if it didn’t get all over the counter already.

oh I see, it's a problem with plastic over metal, ok, I can see that. we just use the whole thing every time but we're a family of five.

beets rule

kind of fascinating imo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah-Idaho_Sugar_Company

prefer juan wauters solo tbh