Beets

[Meadowlark]

I am in my 50s. had never tasted a beet until yesterday. Grew them this year with the idea of adding them in a veggie juice for canning.
pulled 15 yesterday. took 6 of them and put olive oil on them, wrapped them in foil and baked for 30 min.

absolutely love the taste. made a arugula salad with beets and could not believe how amazing they taste. ate more today baked and by themselves.
man what i have been missing out on.

Our favorite way of using the Detroit Dark Red beets is "pickled". I start them from seed in the fall here when temps begin to moderate and leave them in the ground through winter and harvest now in March when temps start getting to 75 deg and above.

Delicious and reportedly very healthy.

 

[headfullofbees]

A Dutch treat is to pickle eggs in the leftover liquid from pickled beets.
Imaginatively named, "Pickled beets eggs!"