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I love roasted beets! Mmmmm so good. Think I'll grab some this weekend.

I love beets in almost any incarnation. One of my favorites I learned from a greek woman at my Farmer's Market. Roast the beets, let them cool, shred them (I use my box grater) and mix with greek yogurt, lemon juice, a little salt and pepper. It's a gorgeous salad (I'm convinced half my love for beets comes from aesthetics).

My favorite afternoon snack right now is crackers, goat cheese & pickled beets. DELICIOUS.

omg, beets...any time, any way, any place! A summer favorite is cold beet soup, with diced cooked beets, hard boiled eggs, pickles, and minced dill in a buttermilk base. Sounds kinda odd, I know, but my family's eastern european (lithuanian/estonian) so we have all sorts of seemingly odd dishes. Serve the soup with piping hot boiled potatoes. Mmmmn. That's bliss right there.

I never thought I loved beets, but, um, I DO!

Roast them, peel them, chunk em up, and I can eat them straight, simply dressed with lemon, olive oil, salt and pepper. I need to be more patient and do more with them, as they're fantastic!

Beet cake! Everyone I've given this recipe to absolutely loves it. Even the kids!

http://www.urbanhippy.ca/baking/beetcake

I once ate at great restaurant in Edmonton, Alberta called Bacon--utterly vegetarian, except for the option of adding bacon to whatever you order. The city has a large Ukranian population and, accordingly, pierogies are everywhere. They served a rice dish topped with pierogies and shredded beats, and the combination was delicious. With the added bacon gremolata, even more so!

I was so confused, because the original photograph looks like radishes :)

There are too many ways I love to eat beets,

oops, my original comment got all messed up.

What I wanted to say that there are zillions ways I like to eat beets. In salads, soups, with goat cheese, or citrus. here's my list of recipes.

Beets are awesome roasted, but just as great grated raw.

swatters - I'd love more details on that recipe!

Russian salad ftw! We have it at least once a week - here's the way they do it in Peru.

I didn't really get into the beet *thing* until a couple of years ago and now my husband and I just love them. Roasted is our favorite-need to try them raw.

I HATE beets now and forever. Beet greens? I'll gobble them up any time and they offer more in nutrition than the disgusting root.

... Beet chips. Tasty, easy and way better for your waistline than regular chips.

http://theripetomato.wordpress.com/2009/04/02/baked-beet-chips-1st-attempt/

I love roasted beets and I make enough for a quinoa/beet/green been/goat cheese/walnut salad for lunch the next day. Never occurred to me to try them raw - can't wait!

I've never been a huge beets fan, but have recently been enjoying Brazilian black beans, beets & rice. For me, it helps to have them as a complement to a dish instead of the main attraction. ;)

beet haters=more for me.
I can't think of anything that could be done to a beet that I wouldn't love, but it wasn't until a couple of years ago that I had even tried them! Now, it's in my veg top three. My favorite way to eat them is thin sliced, raw, tossed with a bit of vinegar and salt and pepper, goat cheese optional. I can never keep them around long enough to make it into the oven to roast.

I love beets raw and marinated in citrus juice (also inspired by the farmers market, as recommended in your post) and baked and served room temp. with horseradish. My beets and horseradish recipe was inspired by Chef Nancy Silverton (my boss) and created for my mother.

Beets, beets, beets, anytime, anyplace. I'll eat them all, unless they're Harvard beets, in that sickly-syrupy goo they call a "sauce".

I actually have to stop myself buying them each and every time I see them in the store, as I'm always tempted by thoughts of earthy, just-shy-of-crunchy, stain-your-fingers, roasted beets. They're fantastic with mint and yogurt; I think that's my favorite if I had to pick.

Foodwoolf: That's a hell of a story, and a hell of a recipe. Sounds delicious. Hope things are okay for you!

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Beetroot (as we call it in Australia) is delicious!! The Australian way to eat it is cold, pickled and on hamburgers. Its so good. Growing up we used to just have it cold, as a side dish for dinner. Yum!

I also love roasting them for a salad comprising Roasted Pumpkin, roast beetroot, red onion, cherry tomatoes, pine nuts, bacon, baby spinach leaves and a honey mustard dressing.
I also do a Winter Salad that has beef, pumpkin, beetroot, baby spinach, red onion and aioli.

I was a beet hater until I had a side salad at a restaurant that came with shredded beets, and discovered that beets didn't have to taste like canned beets. Such a revelation!

I love the goat cheese-beet-nut-greens combination, but it's especially delicious with yellow beets boiled until they're just tender, topped with toasted pecans.

I've also recently been shredding up raw red and yellow beets and carrots and tossing it with a tiny bit of olive oil, cider vinegar, and salt and pepper. It's amazingly tasty. (Though the beautiful colour contrast doesn't last long, with the red beets in there!)

I roast a batch of beets and chill them and make different things with them.

I just toss them in with celantro, thin slices of red onion then add balsamic and olive oil top with goat cheese. I will add this to quinoa or whatever grain I have around

I also make a creamy celantro dressing which I pour over cold sliced beets. a couple of slices of avocado place on a wedge of iceberg this is about the only time I eat iceberg lettuse. This dish looks pretty too.


I love make beet hash-grate potatoes and beets. saute onion or shallots in oil until translucent. add potatoes, beets, thyme, or rosemary or oregano and garlic and fry up. salt and pepper to taste. You can add a fried egg on to.