Defend The Indefensible - Beetroot

I'm not too keen on the pre-cooked stuff you buy though, that my mum always used to get for salads.

Nice roasted, too. Not too keen on the vinegar thing.

These days, I love the little strips of beetroot that come in many prepacked salads.

The only bad thing about it is that it stains.

Beetroot's a useful food and drink colorant. It is used in Vimto, for example.

true story, yo. and badly told to boot. i pwn.

Shudder.

Betroot and orange salad
borscht
beetroot humous
beetroot in slad generally
source of dye for tie-dying and batik by hippies

1. Dig up fresh ones from the garden
2. Boil in salted water until barely soft
3. Peel and eat with butter that melts over it + salt
4. Remember to not freak out when pee is red the following day

Yum!

or maybe this is just Americans' sweet tooth again - beets have the highest sugar content of any vegetable

Jellied beetroot rules. As does beetroot in a roo burger. Mmm.

Dining out - the aforementioned Eagle Bar Diner. I have seen a load of restaurants featuring Kangaroo steak on their menu, though their names have escaped me. Apologies.

how do you roast beetroot? just clean a raw beet and roast it? or do you have to boil it first for a little while like potatoes?

Then just roast in olive oil, maybe a little rosemary, quartered

Violaine has been staying with us recently and the other evening the two of us were playing Scrabble in English and she kept doing things like turning 'mule' into 'temulent', 'late' into 'fellate', and 'mania' into 'sophomania' with many attendant double word scores and such, all the while saying, "Oh, I never have such luck when I play this in French". I rather harshly uttered the ILE curse, "Go eat a bag of dicks." She looked at me incomprehendingly and I said, off the cuff, "Va manger un sac de bites." Well, she had assumed by 'bites' that I didn't know the word for beet in French and had simply inserted the English word as is, sadly, my wont. The next day when I got home she had made a lovely beet salad with goat cheese in a terragon vinaigrette. My girlfriend, of course, loathes beets and she took it almost as a form of aggression. The little coquette meanwhile looked at me, smiled as sweetly as can be, and said, "Les beets, on en mangera ensemble mon cher Michael." Is this love or war? Either way, I fear for my very life.
-- Michael White (mwwhites...) (webmail), August 6th, 2004 2:21 PM. (Hereward) (link)

When they're done, you can easily slip the skin off, under cold water if they're still oven temp.

Cut them up to bite sized chunks, and add some vinegar, oil, salt, pepper, and herbs.

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It doesn't matter just how much it rains
It won't wash away these beetroot stains
That look much more like blood than dirt
Now that they've soiled my once pristine shirt

There's only one way to get on the level
That's to pop to Tescos for some Stain Devil
And as I put the final touches to my ballad
I'm wishing I'd left beet out of my salad

Yeah what the hell, beets are great!

(NB to Brits: "root" is redundant)

I have a friend who keeps talking about "my favorite dish", Harvard beets, even though I've only ever made them once.

i can take them or leave them. i agree we should just say beet(s). do people even pluralise 'beetroot'?

beetreet

My gf's mum makes amazing beetroot soup. Seeing as frequent visits to Gdansk are impractical, inferior but still good beetroot soup can be obtained from Hajducek, a Polish restaurant a short distance from my home.

So what do seppos call the leaves of the beet?

what, these guys?

Seppo Evwaraye (born 1982), Finnish National Football League offensive guard
Seppo Kääriäinen (born 1948), Finnish politician
Seppo Kolehmainen (born 1933), Finnish film actor
Seppo Pääkkönen (born 1957), Finnish actor
Seppo Räty (born 1962), Finnish javelin thrower
Seppo Simola (1936-2003), Finnish shotputter
Seppo Telenius (born 1954), Finnish writer
Seppo Arnold (1917-1980), Estonian doctor.

beetroot isn't completely redundant tho i think cause the leaves are edible too (i think)

apparently i think too much

carrotroot

potatoroot

square rootroot

Leaves are edible, and v. nice sauteed.

"beet(s)" is typically used to refer to the food, which does not include the leaves. when referring to the leaves as food, we say "beet greens"

the beetnuts
beet, petite

thebeetrootles

1. Peel or scrub
2. Grate
3. Add many, many toasted black and white mustard seeds
4. Add parsley, lemon, oil, garlic, bitta sugar.
5. Eat delicious snack
6. Pee funky

"want any corn?"

"ew, i don't eat husks"

"sorry, i mean corn kernels"

how much beetroot do you have to eat to change the colour of yr pee?

Tracer, you philistine. You eat the tassels.

one of the best first post-second post combinations on ILX?

beetroot is my favorite food. peeps be crazy.

how much beetroot do you have to eat to change the colour of yr pee?

Not very much.

Beetroot, quartered and roasted, is so so good, warm or cold. Especially yum when roasted with parsnips and rutabagas and turnips and carrots in a mix of gorgeous fall root vegetable colors, so earthy and sweet.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beeturia

I wonder if there's a correlation between beeturia and asparagus pee.

Weird, I thought it happened to everyone.

Beetroot, though -- there's no such thing as a bad vegetable, just bad preparation.

I LOVE BEETS I LOVE THEM I LOVE THEM SO MUCH.

When I was four I'd get in trouble with my mom for going to the garden and digging her beets up and eating them like popsicles. It's not exactly inconspicuous when you leave big piles of dirt around and have magenta stains all over your face. I ate almost all the beets. JUST FOR ME HAHAHA THEY ARE MY BEETS

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http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1165/1426998013_3591eeef14.jpg

I boiled the beets whole and then sliced them and put goat cheese on top. The beet greens are sauteed with garlic, olive oil, S&P, and rice. The beets are from a neat farm right here in the city--we have so many uninhabited and destroyed buildings that someone decided to put a community farm on a big patch of vacant land. The greens were especially fresh and yummy.

I am, right now, eating one sandwich with avocado, beetroot, tomato and ham and it is delightful. It would be so much worse without the beet.

And yesterday I had a McOz. Which is like a Quarter Pounder with some gimpy salad and a slice of beetroot.

Is this a real McDonalds offering or is it like the time I only had peanut butter and hamburger buns and had to invent the McSkippy?

The Beetroot risotto at Mistura in Toronto = best risotto evar

I am a recent convert to the Beet. My god, it is tasty. And I love that it turns everything else in the salad bowl bright pink.

http://www.amws.com.au/clouds/images/beetroot.gif

Apparently Australian bands like beetroot?

Wow, that album cover is, like... *so* 1995.

My recent beet risotto.

I need to figure out more things to do with beets because I like to eat them but have no idea how to prepare them except cut them up and chuck them in stuff. (Usually baked beans. Oh, the pinkness.)

Beetroots are awesome

Roast them with sweet potato, apple and pear and eat with duck.

I roasted some beets for the first time yesterday, and ate one cut up with blue cheese, olive oil, kosher salt and balsamic vinegar. Very nice! The red pee later was pretty funny, esp. since I also had blanched asparagus, so it was smelly red pee.

That album cover's kinda 1957

Beet lovers such as I must accept, sadly, but with unquivering lip, the fact that beet haters can rarely, if ever, be converted. It is a question of personal taste. The same is true of mushroom haters.