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Main Forums => The Mess Hall => Topic started by: K Frame on July 08, 2019, 08:29:23 AM
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Who likes them?
Who hates them (so we can thoroughly beat you)...
I absolutely love beets. I picked up two pounds of fresh young beets at farmer's market Saturday and roasted them yesterday. I was going to do them on the grill with some of the Italian hot links I also picked up at market only to discover I was out of charcoal.
Sigh.
So I oven roasted them. Very easy to do. Cut the tops and bottoms off, throw them in a pan with some salt and a bit of oil to coat them and cover with foil. Roast until fork tender (mine took about an hour.
Skinning them is easy -- simply let them cool a bit then rub with a tea towel. The skins will slip right off.
I had some with butter, salt and pepper last night, and now I'm looking for a good summer salad recipe for the rest.
I really should have bought all they had and roasted and frozen the excess.
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Time to repeat my Costco story.
I used to hate beets, or at least I thought I hated them (as in, the kid that doesn't try them). I really like them now. Costco sells some from Love Farms and I pick them up there on occasion. One time doing so, I got to the register and there was a problem scanning them. It was crowded and the lines were long and getting longer. The frustrated checker asked for a manager, who couldn't come over, so they had to shout at each other.
The checker yelled, "I need a price on Love beets!" Only it sounded like "love beads".
The manager caught it right away, as did I, and the manager yelled, "What?"
Cashier replied again, "I need a price on love beads!"
Manager (smiling now and trying not to laugh): "What?"
Cashier: "I NEED A PRICE ON LOVE BEADS!!!"
By now, the manager, me, and several others were cracking up and the cashier finally got it. Only a bunch of other people at the registers heard it too and didn't know the context, and they were all staring at me, the guy buying "love beads". :rofl:
But yes, I like beets. Especially love beets. :laugh:
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Beet greens are great. Beet roots are not really edible, they are for throwing at passing cars, and scaring small children. ;)
I grew beets in my garden once; thought maybe I didn't like them because I'd never really given fresh beets a chance. Nope, but that's how I found out about the greens.
Wife and I went to a Ukrainian restaurant a couple of months ago. I got a cup of borscht just to try it. I should have gotten a bowl of it, it was really good. Didn't taste like beets :D
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Love beets but the beet greens are even better.
Oddly, I found out I'm allergic to golden beets but red beets don't bother me. (I'm a person of few allergies, not one of those allergic to everything types)
Roasted beet roots are the preferred. We do them on the grill and sometime mix with potatoes and some onion and garlic.
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"Beet greens are great. Beet roots are not really edible..."
Beet greens are absolutely disgusting.
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I enjoy roasted beets, especially in salads. Until this very moment, I did not know that beet greens were edible.
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We usually pickle a box every couple of years. A box is called a "tab" by the local farmers, and is around 40 pounds. I'm not really fond of cooked beets, but pickled ones are like candy. We can get them fresh this time of year from the farmer across the road for about $15 a tab. He will top them or not, your choice.
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Until this very moment, I did not know that beet greens were edible.
There is a salad mix of seeds called arugula (or something like that), that has different greens in it. Red beets are part of the mix.
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Beets taste and smell like dirt. I honestly have no idea how people can stomach them.
(You wanted to know who hates them, so I complied.)
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"I'm not really fond of cooked beets, but pickled ones are like candy."
That's why I roast my beets. It concentrates the natural sugars as moisture is lost during the roasting process.
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Beets taste and smell like dirt. I honestly have no idea how people can stomach them.
(You wanted to know who hates them, so I complied.)
Prepare for your beating, heretic!
I bet you're one of those people who thinks cilantro tastes like soap...
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I grew beets with a late season planting in the greenhouse and covered them for winter. Pulled them in the spring. Those were the sweetest beets I ever had and the carrots were also awsome
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Stupid thread. I just got back from my new local Costco, which doesn't sell the Love beets. They did have a two pack of jarred sweet pickled beets, so I'm trying those.
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"Stupid thread."
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Then why you come back multiple times? Forrest Ben?
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"Stupid thread."
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Then why you come back multiple times? Forrest Ben?
I should have used a smiley. Stupid only because it made me crave beets.
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Mama always said life is like a box of love beads...
One way or another, you're getting in it the ass...
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Beets taste and smell like dirt. I honestly have no idea how people can stomach them.
(You wanted to know who hates them, so I complied.)
Son 2 has said exactly that for years (he turns 40 this week). In fact, some people have a particular enzyme in their mouth that causes this reaction. I don’t remember where I read it but a search will likely find the article.
I rather enjoy fresh, boiled or steamed beets. The greens can also be steamed - they’re much like spinach.
JB
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Beets taste and smell like dirt. I honestly have no idea how people can stomach them.
(You wanted to know who hates them, so I complied.)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12568567
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geosmin
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The Puke Palace > Beets!
I think that sums it up much more succinctly than I could ever hope to accomplish. =|
bob
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"Son 2 has said exactly that for years (he turns 40 this week). In fact, some people have a particular enzyme in their mouth that causes this reaction. I don’t remember where I read it but a search will likely find the article."
Interesting. Sort of like those people who say that cilantro tastes like soap.
About the only food that I really do not like (but I'm coming a bit closer to tolerating) is olives. Olives always tasted like soap to me, especially brine cured ones. The ash cured ones I've had have been better, but still not great. I believe that most commercial olives are lye cured (ash curing creates a form of lye) so there's something about the ash that does something to the flavor.
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Time to beet this thread like a dead horse!
Steamed my latest round of beets from Imperfect Produce. Made a salad for dinner last night with romaine heart, cucumber, a diced up beet (all from Imperfect Produce), blue cheese crumbles and a vinaigrette of olive oil, orange juice, and balsamic vinegar, all topped with a thinly sliced pan-seared tuna steak. Pretty damned awesome.
Yesterday I also pickled 2 cans of whole baby beets. That's about the only use I have for canned beets...
Simple to do, too, but everything is done by "well this looks to be about how much I need)...
Drain juice of 2 cans of beets into a stainless sauce pan.
Add about 1 cup vinegar.
Add about 1/2 to 3/4 C sugar.
Add about a half dozen whole cloves, a chunk of cinnamon stick, and some all spice berries.
Bring to a boil, stirring to dissolve the sugar.
Boil for about 5 minutes, then turn the heat off and let the pickle partially cool.
Put the beets in a container and pour the pickle over them. Lid up and throw in the refrigerator.
They'll be good after a couple of hours, but will get a lot better over the coming weeks.
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I've been eating so many beets lately that I'm pissing red...
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I've been eating so many beets lately that I'm pissing red...
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Ned, dat you?
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Don't get the reference.
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Don't get the reference.
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You're talking about colorful bodily functions...
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Mom occasionally put pickled beets on the table. I tried real hard not to gag. Dad's family liked borscht. A couple years ago some buds and I ate at Tamarac, exit 45 on I-77/64, Chefs from the Greenbrier Hotel. I had roasted root veggies as a side. "Hhmmm, pretty good, are those red pieces beets?". Have grilled and roasted some occasionally since.
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"I tried real hard not to gag."
Heathen...
A few weeks ago I was grabbing a salad at the local grocery store and was putting pickled beets in the container. Some woman looked said "Oh, you like beets, too?"
"Nah, I just fling them at my coworkers..."
We had a laugh, a short chat, and it turned out that they were also a staple when she was growing up in Pennsylvania.
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I liked beets until the sugar factories here ramped up last month. Now I'm not so sure. :laugh:
J/K, I still like them, but man, that smell is annoying. I seem to be lucky and live in a pocket of fresh air, but as you head into Nampa, it's quite noticeable.
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So, what does sugar beet processing smell like?
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So, what does sugar beet processing smell like?
It's hard to describe. I mean, it's not like a manure factory or anything, but it's certainly not sweet. :laugh:
We have potato processors too (Like OrIda), and you can definitely tell it's potatoes. I wouldn't place this smell with beets if I didn't know it was a sugar factory.
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I liked beets until the sugar factories here ramped up last month. Now I'm not so sure. :laugh:
J/K, I still like them, but man, that smell is annoying. I seem to be lucky and live in a pocket of fresh air, but as you head into Nampa, it's quite noticeable.
Could be worse I live a mile north of a soybean mill, south wind is a sweet burning smell. 2 miles east is a soybean fermenter, east winds smell like putrid cheese.
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It's hard to describe. I mean, it's not like a manure factory or anything, but it's certainly not sweet. :laugh:
We have potato processors too (Like OrIda), and you can definitely tell it's potatoes. I wouldn't place this smell with beets if I didn't know it was a sugar factory.
My grandparents lived with in two miles of a sugar beet plant. After I got used to the odor, I kind of missed it. They died in the 1980s, and when we went back through there in 2004, the smell brought back memories of visiting my grandparents. It's what I would describe as "earthy". Now, the alfalfa drying plant down the road was something entirely different.
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When I was in Cairo, Illinois, a few years ago the entire town smelled incredible. There's a soybean processor at the edge of town and I guess they were either drying or roasting soybeans.
The town I grew up in had a small commercial bakery. The town often smelled like cakes baking.
And, in the spring, when the wind was just right, coming up the river from the south east, you could smell chocolate from Hershey. Not from the plant, but from the cocoa bean hulls that they use as mulch all over the town.
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Now, the alfalfa drying plant down the road was something entirely different.
As in bad, or am I reading that wrong? I've only ever smelled cut alfalfa drying in the fields, but I actually like that smell. Wondering if machine drying it changes something.
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Now, the alfalfa drying plant down the road was something entirely different.
Are you sure they weren't making silage? That can be pretty rank if it's too wet.
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Back to the original subject, just ordered my Imperfect Produce box and beets are back!
I have 4 pounds coming...
Time to roast!
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As in bad, or am I reading that wrong? I've only ever smelled cut alfalfa drying in the fields, but I actually like that smell. Wondering if machine drying it changes something.
Yes, it smells bad. Thankfully, they didn't run it very often. Whereas, the sugar factory ran pretty much all summer.
Are you sure they weren't making silage? That can be pretty rank if it's too wet.
No, I've smelled sileage plenty of times. I think they were making alfalfa pellets.
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Back to the original subject, just ordered my Imperfect Produce box and beets are back!
I have 4 pounds coming...
Time to roast!
Where do you order them? We usually have to wait until June and buy a box from one of the neighbors to pickle. We didn't get that done this spring.
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"Where do you order them?"
Imperfectproduce.com
If you decide that you want to participate, PM me your e-mail and I'll send you a code that will give each of $10 off an order.
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It's hard to describe. I mean, it's not like a manure factory or anything, but it's certainly not sweet. :laugh:
We have potato processors too (Like OrIda), and you can definitely tell it's potatoes. I wouldn't place this smell with beets if I didn't know it was a sugar factory.
Is it worse than driving route 3, through Granite City, IL?
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Is it worse than driving route 3, through Granite City, IL?
Bears. Beets. Battlestar Galactica.
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Bears. Beets. Battlestar Galactica.
Michael!!
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Roasted 5 pounds of beets yesterday.
I sliced them on my V slicer and bagged and froze 4 pounds of them.
The last pound I spread on some parchment paper on a jelly roll pan and then baked a meatloaf on top of them.
Yeah, the whole thing was pretty damned awesome.
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Bears. Beets. Battlestar Galactica.
How did you let the thread get that far before you referenced your favorite beet farmer?
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How did you let the thread get that far before you referenced your favorite beet farmer?
What can I say? I'm slipping in my old age. :laugh: