Beetroot,how do you like yours?

Glad someone else likes them like me ... and know what you mean about the next morning .... :hehe:

 

We just love the ones in jars from Aldi. They are tiny round baby beets and not vinegary at all, in fact, a bit on the sweet side. We each could eat a jar by ourselves.

We find that too much / too strong vingegar is used to pickle things in England. Most of the time, if we had eaten anything blindfolded, we could only have said that it was vinegar, nothing else. My mouth puckers up now just writing this.

So, use less vinegar and add some (more) sugar when you pickle anything next time. I think you will agree that it really tastes better and it does still preserve whatever has been pickled.

Marley, your roasted beetroots sound very interesting. If I can find some uncooked ones in the supermarket, I think I'll try that recipe. Thanks.

 

My father went through a period of what I can only describe as "pickling fever" when I was just toddling so I have grown up with an aversion to the purple menace as I call it. Its taken me over 30 years to give onions another go since then so I suppose I should give beets another chance. Roasted sounds nice Marley, I'll give it a go but I'm not hopeful lol.:dh:

 

Thanks all.....
It just gets better...

http://www.lovebeetroot.co.uk/fastfacts/

 

I love the stuff, but some years ago having grown rather a lot, I handed a bunch over to a neighbour, not realising that she didn't like it. Our first daughter was about 3 weeks old at the time and, a couple of weeks after giving her the beetroot, the neighbour knocked with '... something for the baby'. When I opened it, there was what could only be described as a 'cobweb' of a shawl in the palest pink imaginable. Yep, she'd used the beetroot to dye some wool and made it into that shawl, saying even though she didn't like beetroot, she wasn't going to waste it!

That shawl served all 3 of our daughters, the colour didn't run once and it now resides in the loft awaiting (one day maybe) a grandchild - hopefully a girl.

 

My husband has high blood pressure and I'd seen reports of this research, but couldn't find any juice to buy and any recipes looked just 'yeuk'! I'm going to give yours a go. If he doesn't like it, well, nothing ventured ....

 

I suffer from high blood pressure too, and the thought of eating Beetroot drives it up and up.:hehe::gnthb:

 

As long as it`s not Celery Marley, that brings me out in huge water blisters.:lollol::lollol::lollol::gnthb:

 

I made a chocolate and beetroot cake last weekend and it was delicious. I got the recipe from the WI book of cakes and can highly recommend it to anyone who has a glut of beets.