Do you like beets?

[piston]

It's an acquired taste. We use to grow them, at home, lots of them, but I didn't like them: boiled, pickled, or whatever. But my taste buds have been changing and I kind of like them now. Very nice sweet but healthy taste to them. In fact, one can make a chocolate cake entirely with beets!

[rwetmore]

I don't particularly like them but I use them for fresh juicing. They are supposed to be super healthy - the juice from them that is.

[Cosima___J]

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[rwetmore]

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I don't drink it straight. It's mixed in with carrot and apple.

[Cosima___J]

Put a little vodka in it and you might have something.

[piston]

A bloody Betty?

[piston]

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[RebLem]

When I was a kid, beets were my absolute favorite vegetable, and we, like you, piston, grew our own. They are no longer a favorite, but I do still like them. But its been a long time since I had any, so I think I'll start looking for them in the grocery store. Thanks for bringing it up.

I thought it was really cheating to do the usual thing, and put the beets in a separate side dish. I always liked to have them on the plate, with that deep violet juice insinuating itself into everything else on the plate. LOL. Not everyone's cup of tea, but I loved it.

[Barry]

Yuck. Never touch them. And I find the site of pickled beets disturbing.

[Chosen Barley]

They are nice pickled, and as borsch and kvass (lactic acid fermented). I'm growing Cylindra variety this year. But just plain boiled or baked beets? To each his own, but I don't think that's a traditional thing. More of a modern invention.

[jbuck919]

You've reminded me that they are one of the few things I have not tried as an adult eater, and I am quite omnivorous. My mother used to eat jarred pickled beets when I was a kid, but I wouldn't let that stop me from trying fresh now. Just haven't figured out how to work them into my cooking.

[karlhenning]

I like beets, very much.

Cheers,
~Karl

[Prometheus]

I avoided beets as a youth mostly because I thought they looked odd.

Upon trying them I have always liked them. I prefer to eat them plain or mix them into a salad.

[RebLem]

You've reminded me that they are one of the few things I have not tried as an adult eater, and I am quite omnivorous. My mother used to eat jarred pickled beets when I was a kid, but I wouldn't let that stop me from trying fresh now. Just haven't figured out how to work them into my cooking.

Most people cook them and eat them as a separate, discrete dish. But if you want them to be part of a recipe, go to http://www.epicurious.com . They have this module where you can enter an ingredient and they will come up with recipes in which said ingredient is used.

[jbuck919]

You've reminded me that they are one of the few things I have not tried as an adult eater, and I am quite omnivorous. My mother used to eat jarred pickled beets when I was a kid, but I wouldn't let that stop me from trying fresh now. Just haven't figured out how to work them into my cooking.

Most people cook them and eat them as a separate, discrete dish. But if you want them to be part of a recipe, go to http://www.epicurious.com . They have this module where you can enter an ingredient and they will come up with recipes in which said ingredient is used.

Thanks. I use it frequently. Going to a potluck tonight where my dish is informed by that site. The exact recipe is, of course, my own.

[Jean]

I never liked them in any form. A couple years ago though I ordered a salad in a fine restaurant that had beets and I discovered my tastes had changed. Still not a favorite I go out of the way to make, but I do like them now. Especially cold. I discovered the same thing about other foods. I think as we get older our taste buds get old and dull or just burned out and the foods we couldn't tolerate before no longer have such a strong taste. Probably what little kids rarely like strong tasting foods like broccoli or spinach.

[piston]

We once made a "chocolate" cake from beets and told the kids it was chocolate. They never saw the difference.....

[jbuck919]

Beets are rather a fashionable item on restaurant menus these days. I had never seen them anywhere I would normally eat, but a few days ago my sister and I had dinner at the Grist Mill in Warrensburg, NY, a classy restaurant for around here that does all its business during the summer season. She ordered an appetizer of beets, scallops, and frisée which I got to taste. Whatever you may think about odd combinations, when a good chef makes them work they can be very good, and this was.

(Why does the spell check underline "combinations"?)

[Daisy]

HATE beets! One of the very few foods out there that I just can't eat!