Comments on: How to Cook Beets

By: la dolce vita

la dolce vita — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 08:02:48 +0000

Honey and Laura, I had difficulty eating beets when the naturopath suggested I eat bunches of them. Don’t know how I came up with this, but I ate them covered with Brewer’s (nutritional)yeast. They’re quite good that way.

By: Paula

Paula — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 11:35:55 +0000

Beets are excellent like this as well. Eggs are optional, but they turn dark purple and taste great and look pretty when sliced. While the beets will clean your pipes, the pickled eggs cause some of the worst scented gas you will ever expell. Worth it for the consumer but not the rest of the family (gas can be uses as a great payback for bad or annoying kids, a long car drive with windows UP does the trick).

Pickled Beets and Eggs
INGREDIENTS
8 eggs
2 (15 ounce) cans whole pickled beets,or your own fresh w/ juice reserved
1 onion, chopped
1 cup white sugar
3/4 cup cider vinegar
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 pinch ground black pepper
2 bay leaves
12 whole cloves
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DIRECTIONS
Place eggs in saucepan and cover with water. Bring to boil. Cover, remove from heat, and let eggs sit in hot water for 10 to 12 minutes. Remove from hot water, cool, and peel.
Place beets, onion, and peeled eggs in a non-reactive glass or plastic container. Set aside.
In a medium-size, non-reactive saucepan, combine sugar, 1 cup reserved beet juice, vinegar, salt, pepper, bay leaves, and cloves. Bring to a boil, lower heat, and simmer 5 minutes.
Pour hot liquid over beets and eggs. Cover, and refrigerate 48 hours before using.

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By: Shirley

Shirley — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 04:33:48 +0000

I eat beets all the time. I slice them thinly into small pieces and sautee them in olive oil. At the end, I throw in the cut up greens and sautee them briefly. Cooking them this way is very fast. They are also excellent the next day cold, in a salad. My kids eat them like candy.

They are also very good for you: “Beets are loaded with vitamins A, B1, B2, B6 and C. The greens have a higher content of iron compared to spinach. They are also an excellent source of calcium, magnesium, copper, phosphorus, sodium and iron.

While the sweet beet root has some of the minerals in its greens to a lesser degree, it is also a remarkable source of chlorine, folic acid, iodine, manganese, organic sodium, potassium, fiber and carbohydrates in the form of natural digestible sugars.”

By: Laura

Laura — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 03:37:39 +0000

I do not enjoy beets - at all!!! Laura´s last blog post..Farmer for Laura

By: Annie

Annie — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 03:20:08 +0000

Beets are wonderful! Boiled, baked, grated raw into a salad. Juiced. So good for you, too! Annie´s last blog post..Happy Birthday

By: justrun

justrun — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 23:07:59 +0000

Oh too weird. I’m beginning to think you have my house bugged. I was JUST talking to someone about beets today.

By: The Exception

The Exception — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:23:58 +0000

I might have to give these a try - The Exception´s last blog post..Human doings