For dinner we will cook and eat these beets with home canned Red Pepper Relish.
The meal will begin with a large green salad, with lettuce and carrots from the garden.
The meal will include a 4 ounce helping each of Coconut Lime Fish. We have been using plain frozen cod from NoFrills, or plain frozen haddock from Costco.
The end of the meal for me will feature 500 ml of water, two tablespoons of a oat bran/applesauce/prune juice mixture, and one Chocolate Zucchini Muffin to end my eating window for the day.
Attila will eat a second supper at some point, and enjoy a hefty snack later in the evening.
The beets are ready. We have a lot of beets this year, they are doing really well with all the new compost in the garden. The beets in the image are meant for one meal for two. They will be cooked in the Instant Pot.
Beet stems and leaves will be sorted, the best chosen to be blanched and frozen for winter meals.
My new elbow support arrived yesterday. I slept with it on last night, and did not remove it in my sleep. It is comfortable enough, as long as I make sure the supports are not touching the tip of my elbow. I will say that it is difficult to do anything wearing the brace. It is my dominant hand pinky that is affected, so that I can only accomplish things at arms length while wearing the brace. The fact that my other arm is much shorter complicates coordination. Late night trips to the loo are interesting. Healing may take weeks, perhaps months to discern an improvement, if there is any improvement.
I wonder how other people enjoy beets!
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“The beet is the most intense of vegetables. The radish, admittedly, is more feverish, but the fire of the radish is a cold fire, the fire of discontent, not of passion. Tomatoes are lusty enough, yet there runs through tomatoes an undercurrent of frivolity. Beets are deadly serious.”
Tom Robbins
1932 – 2025
My husband loves beets and eats them with almost every salad. To me, they smell too much like the dirt which they were grown. More for you! 😉
Wendy, it is quite wonderful how taste buds vary from person to person! Smell is such a big part of the eating experience as well. For me it is things like olives, I just cannot get past the smell, and Attila loves them.
We both love beets, particularly with a higher acid condiment, so our Red Pepper Relish fills the bill for that. Prepared mustard is also quite nice with beets.
I was shocked at the grocery store this week, a bunch of three organic beets cost $5.99, and the greens were not fresh enough to be edible.