Organic produce delivery - beets???
dawng
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We have an organic produce delivery service which I absolutely love. It allows me to try things I wouldn't normally try - and it is good, healthy food, doesn't cost as much, have lots of healthy snacks around, etc.
Most of the time if I don't know what to do with a veggie - I'll cut it up and put it in a pan with butter and garlic
It's worked out pretty well so far with kale, okra, and the stuff I couldn't identify.
However, today we got beets. I have no idea what to do with them! And they came with the greens attached.
So - how to cook the beets, and what about the greens? Anyone know if they're edible?
Also - does anyone else get organic produce delivered? What's your experience been?
Thanks in advance
dawn
Most of the time if I don't know what to do with a veggie - I'll cut it up and put it in a pan with butter and garlic
It's worked out pretty well so far with kale, okra, and the stuff I couldn't identify.However, today we got beets. I have no idea what to do with them! And they came with the greens attached.
So - how to cook the beets, and what about the greens? Anyone know if they're edible?
Also - does anyone else get organic produce delivered? What's your experience been?
Thanks in advance
dawn
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http://www.samcooks.com/relish/beets.htm
serve with goat cheese instead of bleu cheese
http://www.gourmet.com/recipes/diaryofafoodie/2007/01/roasted_beet_salad
greens?
never had them but there are some recipes out there
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Roasted-Beets-and-Sauteed-Beet-Greens/Detail.aspx
INGREDIENTS:
* 7 to 9 beets, peeled, quartered
* 1 1/2 cups water
* 3/4 cup brown sugar, packed
* 1/3 cup balsamic vinegar
* 2 tablespoons butter
PREPARATION:
Combine beets with water, brown sugar , vinegar, and butter. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium and continue simmering, uncovered, for about 1 hour, or until beets are tender and most of the liquid has boiled away.
Serves 4 to 6.
this is easy and good...
Cut them into 1/2 inch cubes, and roast them in the oven until tender. Roast with other root vegetables such as sweet potatos,carrots, etc. for an extra tasty treat.
Beets consumed at dinner will, come morning, stock a toilet bowl with fresh crimson fish, their hue attesting to beet's chromatic immunity to the powerful digestive acids and thoroughgoing microbes that can turn the reddest pimento, the orangest carrot, the yellowest squash into a single disgusting shade of brown.
At birth we are red-faced, round, intese, pure. The crimson fire of universal consciousness burns in us. Gradually, however, we are devoured by parents, gulped by schools, chewed up by peers, swalled by social institutions, wolfed by bad habits, gnawed by age; and by the time we have been digested, cow style, in those six stomachs, we emerge a single disgusting shade of brown.
The lesson of the beet, then, is this; hold on to your divine blush, you innate rosy magic, or end up brown. Once you're brown, you'll find that you're blue. As blue as indigo. And you know what that means:
Indigo.
Indigoing.
Indigone."
-- Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins.
A book about the secrets of the universe, immortality, and beets.
ERLEICHDA
We do have a juicer, so that will have to be one of the things I try. Sounds like it is sweet like a carrot? I LOVE carrot juice!
And a beet green recipe too - nice. Wasn't sure they were edible...but will try!
And finally - wow - thanks for the lesson in the universe, immortality and beets!
LOL!!!
I just finished reading that book last night, so I had to write that little diddy. Is it coincidence that a thread pops up about beets the day after I finish reading a phenomenal book about beets? hmmmm I think not.
Highly recommended... along with all of TR's other works.
ERLEICHDA